[privacy] U.S. Attorney General Gonzales Blasts Surveillance Critics

["Fergie" <fergdawg () netzero net>]

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Personally, I'll be glad when the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of
Appeals rules that this whole warrantless surveillance thing
is unconstitutional -- and when this Bush administration
apparatchik is gone from office.

Via The Boston Globe (AP).

[snip]

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of
the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining
freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security.

Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to attack a
federal judge's ruling last August that the program was unconstitutional.
Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday called the ruling "an indefensible act
of judicial overreaching."

Gonzales told about 400 cadets from the Air Force Academy's political
science and law classes that some see the program as on the verge of
stifling freedom rather that protecting the country.

"But this view is shortsighted," he said. "Its definition of freedom -- one
utterly divorced from civic responsibility -- is superficial and is itself
a grave threat to the liberty and security of the American people."

[snip]

More:
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/11/18/gonzales_b
lasts_surveillance_critics/

- - ferg

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