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."
boring, very boring…
We’ve listened the these synchronized speeches for six plus years now, and it’s gotten monotonous. When they had the guaranteed support of both Houses, it was one thing. But now, it’s just boring. Maybe if they wore those nose clips and goggles like the synchronized swimmers, it would add some pizzaz to the drone. And the audience is hand picked – the Federalist Society and the Air Force Academy in this case. Government of the Republicans, by the Administration, for the select few.
What gets me is how they keep hammering that what they’re doing is a really good idea and that its opponents are irresponsible . Yet what they’re doing has been a monumental disaster, and the country finally knows it and voted them resoundingly out of power, in spite of their control over the religious vote. They just do the same thing over and over because it fits some ideological niche and pay no attention to the actual impact or worth of what they’re preaching with such zeal [in unison]. This one, unwarranted domestic surveillance, was busted by the Supreme Count, no one is really for it, and a lot of us suspect it was used inappropriately.
I guess they don’t have anything else to talk about…
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