AP: Gonzales Blasts Surveillance Critics

[Eugene]

Gonzales Blasts Surveillance Critics

By CHASE SQUIRES

AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. Nov 18, 2006 (AP)— 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."

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Full article: http://www.abcnews.go.com/Politics/wireStory?id=2664435

[annabanana]

1. Gonzales is a weaselly little fascist. .

.. a smiling, torturing monster.

[indepat]

4. And a grave threat to the national security and the Constitution

[HaggardsMethDealer]

2. There was already a system in place....

The system didn't work on 9/11 because field agents weren't listened to, not because it took too long to get a warrant to tap someone's phone.

The system works fine. There is no need to grant unlimited powers to the President.

[texpatriot2004]

3. Works the other way too, Surveillance Critics blast Gonzales nt