Atty. Gen. Gonzales Attacks Critics As Bush Admin Tries To Push Warrantless Wiretapping Through Lame-Duck Congress...

Associated Press Chase Squires November 18, 2006 04:38 PM

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S. security.
Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to attack a federal judge's ruling last August that the program was unconstitutional. Vice PresidentDick Cheney on Friday called the ruling "an indefensible act of judicial overreaching."

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