No Longer Operative

It looks like we’re approaching the point where some hack stands up and explains that the claim that any disagreements were not about the domestic wiretap program is no longer operative.

Documents indicate eight congressional leaderswere briefed about the Bush administration’s terrorist surveillanceprogram on the eve of its expiration in 2004, contradicting swornSenate testimony this week by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

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

At a heated Senate Judiciary Committee hearingTuesday, Gonzales repeatedly testified that the issue at hand was notabout the terrorist surveillance program, which allowed the NationalSecurity Agency to eavesdrop on suspects in the United States withoutreceiving 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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"The dissent related to other intelligenceactivities," Gonzales testified at Tuesday’s hearing. "The dissent wasnot about the terrorist surveillance program."

I’m officially taking bets. Do you think Gonzales’ get-out-of-jail-card will come more quickly or more slowly than Libby’s did?