So what does the oversight committee do? They send Fredo a nice letter asking him if there’s anything he’d like to change in his testimony. Oh, and when Leahy was asked if it was possible to impeach the attorney general, his answer was….. Yes it is, but by the time we’d do it his term would be over. Again…… politics as usual. I’m so sick of this shit.

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) — Documents indicate eight congressional leaders were briefed about the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillance program on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting sworn Senate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

The documents underscore questions about Gonzales’ credibility as senators consider whether a perjury investigation should be opened into conflicting accounts about the program and a dramatic March 2004 confrontation leading up to its potentially illegal reauthorization.

A Gonzales spokesman maintained Wednesday that the attorney general stands by his testimony.

At a heated Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, Gonzales repeatedly testified that the issue at hand was not about the terrorist surveillance program, which allowed the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on suspects in the United States without receiving court approval.

Instead, Gonzales said, the emergency meetings on March 10, 2004, focused on an intelligence program that he would not describe.

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