AG Alberto R. Gonzales Testifies Before Senate Judiciary Cmte. Today

Wartime Executive Power and the NSA’s Surveillance Authority
Senate Judiciary Committee Full Committee, February 6, 2006 [Note: according to video and the transcript of the testimony, GOP Senators voted not to have Gonzales sworn in.]

  • Prepared Statement of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, Washington, D.C., Monday, February 6, 2006.
  • Washington Post, Complete Transcript, in Three Parts, of U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee Holds a Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and the National Security Agency’s Surveillance Authority
  • AP – “Senators raised doubts about the legal rationale for the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program Monday, forcing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to provide a lengthy defense of the operations he called a vital “early warning system” for terrorists.”
  • AP – Ex-President Carter: Eavesdropping Illegal
  • Postings on domestic surveillance
  • Editor & Publisher: Attorney General Says Criminal Probe Continues in Leak to ‘NY Times’
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