調査の意見の相違は、正義の部門を言わない。

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司法省 それが2006年に誓われた声明を引き込めないと昨日言われる Alberto R.司法長官。 Gonzales テロリストの監視プログラムは議会の証明火曜日にもかかわらずブッシュ政権の中の論争を、そのようなプログラムを抗議するためにほぼ2004年に辞職された年長の部門の役人覚醒させなかったこと。

部門のGonzalesの注目の断言は前の米国分類された論争の性質についての新しい質問を上げた。 officials say led then-Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey and as many as eight colleagues to discuss resigning.

Testifying Tuesday on Capitol Hill, Comey declined to describe the program. He said it “was renewed on a regular basis” and required the attorney general’s signature.

He said a review by the Justice’s Office of Legal Counsel in spring 2004 had concluded the program was not legal.

Comey said he and the others were prepared to resign when the White House renewed the program after failing to get a certification of its legality ― first from him and later from then-Attorney General John D. Ashcroft, while Ashcroft was ill and heavily sedated at George Washington University Hospital.

Gonzales, testifying for the first time in February 2006 about the Terrorist Surveillance Program, which involved eavesdropping on phone calls between the United States and places overseas, told two congressional committees that the program had not provoked serious disagreement involving Comey or others.

“None of the reservations dealt with the program that we are talking about today,” Gonzales said then.

Four Democratic senators sent a letter to Gonzales yesterday asking, “do you stand by your 2006 Senate and House testimony, or do you wish to revise it,” prompting the Justice Department’s response.

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