Via ex-Justice Department lawyer Marty Lederman, Justice Department spokesman Brian Roehrkasse released a statement yesterday to reconcile the obvious inconsistencies between Alberto Gonzales’s testimony and former Deputy Attorney General James Comey’s on warrantless surveillance. Roehrkasse blames Gonzales’s woes on the difficulty of publicly discussing classified programs. In other words, no one should expect Gonzales to be candid, but we should nevertheless trust him that Comey wasn’t dissenting from the surveillance program that everyone understands as the “Terrorist Surveillance Program.”
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