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

[coderman <coderman () gmail com>]

On 11/18/06, Fergie <fergdawg () netzero net> wrote:
> ...
> 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.

channeling ashcroft, perhaps.


> 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."

trashing the judiciary? that's a little harsh from an Attorney General...


> 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."

wow. sophistry set to maximum!


also in the clip:
"""
Speaking to the cadets, Gonzales dismissed as "myth" the charge that
civil liberties were being sacrificed in the fight against terrorism.
He defended the Patriot Act and the handling of detainees at the U.S.
military base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
"""
is this like the myth of evolution?

anyway, nice to see them scrambling.  no retro-active legalization in
congress, and it's pretty clear which way the courts are leaning at
this point.

so the next question is how do we know if they really rip out the taps
and narus filters? must post it on youtube? :P~
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