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U.S. Attorney General Gonzales Blasts Surveillance Critics

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.

An AP newswire article by Chase Squires, via The Boston Globe, reports that:

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."

More here.

posted by Fergie @ 11/18/2006 02:19:00 PM