Nothing provides a tone-setter for today’s confrontational Senate Judiciary Committee showdown with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales like a bracing denial of the facts. And that’s what Gonzales gave to chairman Pat Leahy when Leahy asked about Gonzales’s repeated statements to Congress that there weren’t any problems with the way the FBI used their National Security Letter authorities to gain personal or financial information on U.S. citizens without warrants. In fact, the AG received repeated and timely notification about NSL abuse precisely when he was telling Congress that nothing was wrong.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180311