No Oath for Gonzales; No Law for the President?

No Oath for Gonzales; No Law for the President?
"The Democrats are not asking basic follow-ups..."

Washington, D.C. - Institute for Public Accuracy - infoZine - Jonathan Turley is a professor of Constitutional law at George Washington University. He said yesterday: "Alberto Gonzales has been claiming national security to avoid answering basic questions about the program. For example, when asked if he revealed information from the program to the FISA court, he refused to answer under the absurd claim that it was somehow sensitive information. It is a use of national security for purely political reasons....

"The Democrats are not asking basic follow-ups, like when Gonzales said today that the administration did not request an amendment to FISA because doing so would result in the ending of the program; no one asked if the program, since it has been disclosed, must now end.

"Fundamentally Gonzales is following the script of the white paper he released several weeks ago. The legal arguments are without merit. The administration is attempting to argue that the president is not bound by law; that is a concept entirely foreign to our system....

"Perhaps most astonishing is the unwillingness of the committee to place Gonzales under oath. During his confirmation hearings, Gonzales expressly denied that the president was asserting this authority. He did so when he knew that the president had exercised that very same authority."

Elizabeth Matos and Alex Little are law students at Georgetown University Law Center. They are among the co-founders of the group Stand Up for the Law, which organized the student protests when Gonzales spoke recently at the law school. Said Little: "Today, Gonzales said that dealing with the FISA Court takes too long. But FISA allows the administration to get warrants after surveillance has begun, and the Court itself moves quickly. His answers again don't add up. Now the members of Congress -- on both sides of the aisle -- face a choice: defer to a power grab or stand up for the law."

"Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 shall be the exclusive means by which electronic surveillance ... may be conducted." FISA; 18 U.S.C. Sec. 2511(f)

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Jonathan Turley
J.B. and Maurice Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law; Director of the Environmental Law Advocacy Center; Executive Director, Project for Older Prisoners
http://www.law.gwu.edu/Faculty/profile.aspx?id=1738
Email: jturley@law.gwu.edu
Telephone: (202) 994-7001
Fax: (202) 994-9811
CNN 2/05/06 Prof. Jonathan Turley and Bush's Spying is a Federal Crime!
Audio: http://www.apfn.net/audio/M60205144451-CNN-spy-fed-crime.MP3

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Toward Freedom talked with Leslie Cagan (organizer with the anti-war coalition, United For Peace and Justice) and Gordon Clark (Coordinator of Iraq Pledge of Resistance) in front of the White House on September 26, 2005 during the civil disobedience action they helped organize in which nearly 400 people were arrested for protesting without a permit. The protesters were requesting a meeting with the President in order to demand the withdrawal of US troops from Iraq. In this interview Cagan and Clark discuss the meaning behind the civil disobedience, how it was coordinated and where the peace movement might be headed.

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2/07/06 Goyette re: Oath vs. Gonzales & wiretapping http://www.apfn.net/audio/6020709060701010-Goyette-Gonzales-wiretapping-oath.MP3

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