by marykmusic » Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:52 am
Here's the accompanying story: <br><br><!--EZCODE ITALIC START--><em>WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales offered additional defenses of President Bush's domestic spying program on Tuesday, as the administration tried to redefine the warrantless surveillance in a way that undermines critics. <br> <br>Speaking to students at Georgetown University law school, Gonzales said a 15-day grace period allowing warrantless eavesdropping under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act demonstrates that Congress knew such surveillance "would be essential in wartime."<br><br>Gonzales was supplying legal arguments to the president's comments Monday that the effort should be called a "terrorist surveillance program."<br><br>Confronting Gonzales during his nearly half-hour speech were more than a dozen young people in the audience who turned their backs to him and held up for a banner for television cameras. The banner, loosely based on a Benjamin Franklin quote, read: "Those who would sacrifice liberty for security deserve neither."</em><!--EZCODE ITALIC END--><br><br>The rest is here: <!--EZCODE LINK START--><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/gonzales_nsa;_ylt=AidsteKD2k_xvZZ8FoB7Ll_mWMcF;_ylu=X3oDMTA5bGVna3NhBHNlYwNzc3JlbA--" target="top">Gonzales Seeks to Reframe NSA Surveillance </a><!--EZCODE LINK END--> --MaryK <p></p><i></i>