Gonzales: More to NSA Spying

Many careful observers of the Bush administration have felt there is a great deal more to the NSA spying scandal than anyone has admitted so far. One of the better observers, Laura Rozen of War and Piece, begins a post with the question: "What else is there?" You can almost see Ms. Rozen raising her eyebrow when she read the following two paragraphs in the Washington Post:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales appeared to suggest yesterday that the Bush administration's warrantless domestic surveillance operations may extend beyond the outlines that the president acknowledged in mid-December.

In a letter yesterday to senators in which he asked to clarify his Feb. 6 testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales also seemed to imply that the administration's original legal justification for the program was not as clear-cut as he indicated three weeks ago.

I could be wrong about what Gonzales is trying to tell the Senate, but this sounds like legalese for: uh, er, there's a few things we didn't tell you. The American people have a right to know what Bush is doing in their name. Or what he's hiding.

I suppose we can expect more struggles on this issue even within the Bush administration as those who believe they're above the law battle with those who wish to honor the oath they made to uphold the law and the US Constitution.