January 18, 2007

Senators Question Attorney General Gonzales About Eavesdropping Program

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was lectured on Capitol Hill today by senators who were only partly mollified by the Bush administration’s concession to allow judicial oversight of its electronic-eavesdropping program. Senator Patrick J. Leahy, the Vermont Democrat who has just become chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, told Mr. Gonzales he welcomed the administration’s decision, announced on Wednesday, to seek approval for eavesdropping from the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court, “as many of us, many of us, have been saying should have been done years ago.”

Gonzales Testifies on Eavesdropping Changes, New York Times, January 18, 2007.