From: Karen/Ohio (65.24.248.181)
Subject: Audience Members Turn Backs on Attorney General
Date: January 25, 2006 at 8:01 pm PST

I was wondering which discussion board to put this under War
& corruption or working together and working together seemed
appropriate due to the content. :-) Injoy! It came with a
GREAT picture but it won't post here.

Audience Members Stand and Turn Backs on Attorney General
Submitted by davidswanson on Tue, 2006-01-24 22:32. Media
Gonzales Seeks to Reframe NSA Surveillance

AP Photo: Members of the audience stand up and turn their
backs on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales,...

By PETE YOST, Associated Press Writer
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.

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."

Gonzales was supplying legal arguments to the president's
comments Monday that the effort should be called a "terrorist
surveillance program."

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."

Before his appearance at Georgetown, Gonzales

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