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(AP Photo: Members of the audience stand up and turn their backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,... )

Gonzales Says NSA Criticism Misleading
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales defended the Bush administration's domestic spying program Tuesday and suggested that some critics and news reports have misled Americans about the breadth of the National Security Agency's surveillance.

Gonzales said the warrantless surveillance is critical to prevent another terrorist attack within the United States and falls within President Bush's constitutional authority and the powers granted by Congress immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.
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As he spoke, more than a dozen students stood silently with their backs turned to the attorney general. Outside the classroom where Gonzales was to speak, a pair of protesters held up a sheet that said, "Don't torture the Constitution."
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But some members of Congress from both parties have questioned whether the warrantless snooping is legal. And many Democrats along with a number of legal experts say flatly that Bush has broken the law and has committed an impeachable offense.

Last week, Gonzales sent leaders of Congress a 42-page legal defense of warrantless eavesdropping which suggests that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act is unconstitutional if it prevents the NSA's warrantless eavesdropping.

The National Security Agency program bypassed the special FISA court Congress established in 1978 to approve or reject secret surveillance or searches of foreigners and U.S. citizens suspected of terrorism or espionage.

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Utterly fantastic to see people protesting the bs! Gonzales is lying through his teeth and anyone who has been paying attention knows that he is. Spying on Americans is NOT a power that was granted to bush by Congress!
And is he actually saying (and expecting people to believe) that FISA is unconstitutional if it stops the president from breaking the law?!?!?!?! Man, that is some legal mangling!!!
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