Clip and save this article for future reference. It could be quite humorous.
AIR FORCE ACADEMY, Colo. (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.”
The Dems are going to get to the bottom of the NSA program. And it is going to make Iran-Contra and Monicagate look like a Disney movie by comparison.
Simply put, nearly a dozen NSA officers would not have risked their careers and freedom to leak word of a highly classified program to the New York Times…if that program was limited to phone calls from suspected terrorists abroad calling into the United States.
Cheney and Gonzales are afraid that they will be going to jail. Luckily for them, Joe Biden doesn’t want to mention “woulda, coulda, or shoulda.”