When Gonzales was testifying to the Judiciary Committee last month I thought his answers were very well crafted. He constantly reassured the Senators that he was referring to a certain program (see my Feb. 15 entry here).
Now it looks like Specter finally has realized that. (via the AP)
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ written answers to questions about the Bush administration’s eavesdropping program may require him to testify a second time before the Senate Judiciary Committee, the panel’s Republican chairman said Monday.
“There is a suggestion in his letter there are other classified intelligence programs that are currently under way,” Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, R-Pa., told reporters.
The comments from the moderate Republican come as the Bush administration is trying to quell criticism of its surveillance operations and work with the Senate on legislation that would write the program into law.
In a letter to Specter last week, Gonzales clarified his testimony in a half dozen areas covered in a daylong Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on Feb. 6.
I got a sneaking feeling there is another program and the program Gonzales was testifying about in February was not the program the NYTs originally reported on and the one people are questioning. Perhaps Specter would be better off putting Gonzales under oath this time.