[privacy] Gonzales: Bush Personally Blocked Eavesdropping Probe

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

Via The Chicago Sun-Times (AP).

[snip]

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday that President Bush
personally blocked Justice Department lawyers from pursuing an internal
probe of the warrantless eavesdropping program that monitors Americans'
international calls and e-mails when terrorism is suspected.

The department's Office of Professional Responsibility announced
earlier this year it could not pursue an investigation into the role of
Justice lawyers in crafting the program, under which the National
Security Agency intercepts some telephone calls and e-mail without
court approval.

At the time, the office said it could not obtain security clearance to
examine the classified program.

Under sharp questioning from Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Arlen
Specter, Gonzales said that Bush would not grant the access needed to
allow the probe to move forward.

[snip]

More here:
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/bush18.html

- ferg


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