Gonzales to Downplay Spy Program's Scope
A Reuters newswire article, via Yahoo! News, reports that:
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales plans to tell a Senate committee on Monday that President George W. Bush's warrantless domestic surveillance program is carefully targeted and "not a dragnet," Time magazine reported on its Web site on Saturday.
Citing Bush administration documents, Time said Gonzales will say that contrary to speculation in media reports, the program "is not a dragnet that sucks in all conversations and uses computer searches to pick out calls of interest."
"No communications are intercepted unless first it is determined that one end of the call is outside of the country and professional intelligence experts have probable cause ... that a party to the communication is a member or agent of al-Qaeda or an affiliated terrorist organization," Time quoted Gonzales as saying in written responses to questions by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter.
posted by Fergie @ 2/05/2006 09:20:00 AM
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