Gonzales at the Senate Intel Committee today

Two clips from two different stories on Al Gonzales testifying before the Senate Intel Committee today. First, Al Gonzales contends that the President can monitor completely DOMESTIC calls under the authority they've claimed.

In response to a question from Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.) during an appearance before the House Judiciary Committee, Gonzales suggested that the administration could decide it was legal to listen in on a domestic call without supervision if it were related to al-Qaeda.

"I'm not going to rule it out," Gonzales said.

In the past, Gonzales and other officials refused to say whether they had the legal authority to conduct warrantless eavesdropping on domestic calls, and have stressed that the NSA eavesdropping program is focused only on international communications.

Now, take that and combine it with this,

The attorney general acknowledged that there had been disagreement about the monitoring inside the administration. But he took issue with published reports that detailed some of those disputes.

"They did not relate to the program the president disclosed," he said. "They related to something else and I can't get into that."

And what conclusions do you get? There are more controversial monitoring programs, formerly or currently in operation, than those that have been made public thus far. Are these two quotes telling me that this President is monitoring domestic calls without a warrant in the same type of broad net surveillance which has been outlined regarding the admitted program?

And after today's news which more or less confirms that Bush himself was involved in "manipulating" the intelligence leading us to Iraq, can they tell the American people once again to trust them?

This is not the America I was brought up to believe in. It has all gone so horribly wrong. This administration's greatest crime is that they knowingly played upon the fear and vulnerability of the American people in the wake of 9-11 to create this situation. They violated the faith of the American people.

There's no specific statute covering that, but that is their great crime.