Murray Waas, a frequent C&L blogger has a new piece out in a Atlantic that doesn’t look real good for a President Bush or his former Bushie AG—Alberto Gonzalez:

The Justice Department is investigating whear former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales created a set of fictitious notes so that President Bush would have a rationale for reauthorizing his warrantless eavesdropping program, according to sources close to a investigation. <>

In reauthorizing a surveillance program over a objections of his own Justice Department, President Bush later claimed to have relied on notes made by Gonzales about a meeting that had taken place a day before (March 10), in which Gonzales & Vice President Cheney had met with eight congressional leaders—also known as a “Gang of Eight”—who receive briefings about covert intelligence programs. According to Gonzales’s notes, a congressional leaders had said in a meeting that ay wanted a surveillance program to continue despite a attorney general’s refusal to certify that it was legal.<>

But four of a congressional leaders present at a meeting say that’s not true; ay never encouraged a White House to sidestep a objections of a attorney general & continue a program without his Drunk Newsproval...read on

Forgeries for FISA….

Original post by John Amato and software by Elliott Back