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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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 Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 3:49 pm Post subject: U.S. Administration not answerable to Congress? |
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Since when?
Ain't gonna tell! So there!
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Attorney General Proves Steadfast in the Art of Evasion
Friday, November 3, 2006; Page A19
Open-government advocates are howling this week over a newly released transcript of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's testimony before the House Judiciary Committee in April on topics including domestic wiretapping and surveillance, treatment of potential terrorists, and the president's power to declassify information.
During the session, Gonzales evaded most of the four dozen questions asked by Republican and Democratic members by claiming ignorance, or telling the committee -- which oversees the Justice Department -- that the answers were too secret to share. ...committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr. (R-Wis.) lectured the attorney general:
"I'm afraid that you have caused more questions to be put out for debate within the Congress and in the American public as a result of your answers. . . . We have not been treated as partners for whatever reason. . . . I am really concerned that the Judiciary Committee has been kind of put in the trash heap . . . "
...a representative exchange between Gonzales and Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-N.Y.) from a transcript...:
Nadler : Well, do we claim the authority to render someone to another country -- let's assume we believe they're not going to use torture -- by what right do we, legal right, do we pick someone up at an airport and deny him the right to continue to Canada which is where he's a citizen of, and send them to Syria without any kind of administrative or judicial process?
Gonzales : ***
Nadler : Do we claim the right to do that? Whatever happened in that case, is that something we claim the right to do?
Gonzales : I don't know, but I would be happy to get back to you on that.
Nadler: You don't know if we claim the right to do that because the Government defended that in court, your Department defended that in court.
Gonzales : Before I comment any further on that, Congressman, I'd like the opportunity to get back to you.
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cbclark4
Joined: 20 Aug 2006
Location: Masan
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:12 pm Post subject: |
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Doesn't this belong in another string that you started the other day?
Sounds like the same topic.
Canadian goes to Syria by way of US enroute to Canada.
He gets tortured and released.
Hey Syria if your gonna torture someone don't let 'em go for cryin' out loud, then we have to hear about it from this guy in five different topics instead of posting in the original topic, like some kind of literary torture.
Too many topic strings for one rant.
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EFLtrainer
Joined: 04 May 2005
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| Posted: Fri Nov 03, 2006 7:49 pm Post subject: |
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| Who's sock are you, again? And how many does that make, gopher? |
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