Snipped from HeraldNews.com.

It seems that our government is still trying to figure out if they want to break our constitutional laws and civil liberties or just do away with them entirely. Looks like Bush is still trying to remove all individual privacy, and increase all governmental secrecy — well, at least when it comes to the executive branch’s secrecy. This is a continuation of the amazing, unethical lengths that Bush is willing to go to “secure” his country. Ashcroft spoke to the House panel on Thursday about his points of view on the White House’s new controversial eavesdropping policies.

Here is a portion of the article about what is going on behind closed doors that concerns your freedoms:

“It is very apparent to us that there was robust and enormous debate within the administration about the legal basis for the president’s surveillance program,” Intelligence Committee Chairman Silvestre Reyes, D-Texas, told reporters after a closed-door meeting with Ashcroft.

The point is critical to two matters being considered in the Democratic-controlled Congress: One is the House and Senate Intelligence committees’ ongoing review of 1978 Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, which includes an extensive examination of the president’s warrantless eavesdropping program.

The other is the House and Senate Judiciary Committees’ parallel examinations of current Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ service to the administration. Under that probe, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey revealed that Gonzales, then White House counsel, tried to pressure him and a critically ill Ashcroft to certify the legality of the wiretapping program.

Comey and Ashcroft, who was in intensive care during Gonzales’ 2004 hospital visit, refused to comply.

[Congress has issued subpoenas for records regarding this issue and here is the White House’s reply:]

“It’s important for Congress to understand that the information the committee is requesting is highly classified and not information we can make available,” said Bush spokesman Tony Fratto. “Also important is for Congress to respect our need to ensure that internal executive branch deliberations are confidential.

So there you go. Bush, making the world safer, and less free, one constitutional liberty destroyed at a time.

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