On July 24 2007, Bush Administration Attorney General Alberto Gonzales told the United States Congress in sworn testimony that when he tried to get a bedridden John Ashcroft to reauthorize a program of wiretapping against people in the United States without so much as a constitutionally-mandated warrant, and then when a bunch of Bush administration lawyers threatened to resign in protest, the whole thing had nothing to do with warrantless wiretapping (or, as the Bush administration has named it in a splash of Orwellian flair, the “Terrorist Surveillance Program”).

On July 26 2007, FBI Director Robert Muller testified to the United States Congress that yes, indeed, the whole affair did have to do with the Bush administration’s program of wiretapping people in the United States without a warrant.

According to Muller, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has lied in testimony to Congress. The only exculpatory possibility left to Alberto Gonzales is that FBI Director Robert Muller is himself lying to Congress, behavior which if true would hardly leave the Bush administration sparkling clean.

All this from the administration that promised to “restore honor and integrity to the White House.” Funny, but I never hear Bush or his compadres using that phrase any more.

(Source: New York Times July 26, 2007)