Mom would be so proud
Thanks to Glenn Greenwald I saw the transcript where Sen. Feingold had a question or two of Alberto Gonzalez at today's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing:
Feingold: It is a disgrace and disservice to your office and the President to have accused people on this Committee of opposing eavesdropping on terrorists.Gonzales: I didn't have you in mind or anyone on the Committee when I referred to people who oppose eavesdropping on terrorists. Perish the thought.
Feingold: Oh, well it's nice that you didn't have us "in your mind" when making those accusations, but given that you and the President were running around the country accusing people of opposing eavesdropping on terrorists in the middle of an election, the fact that you didn't have Congressional Democrats in "mind" isn't significant. Your intent was to make people think that anyone who opposed the "TSP" did not want to eavesdrop on terrorists, even though that was false. No Democrats oppose eavesdropping on terrorists.
Gonzales: I wasn't referring to Democrats.
Greenwald: So, apparently, all those speeches Bush officials and their supporters have spent the last year giving accusing people of opposing eavesdropping on terrorists, and all the television commericals making the same accusations throughout the months leading up to the election, were not about Democrats at all, but were about random bloggers who are against all eavesdropping. Where?
The random bloggers Bush, et. al. were accusing of opposing eavesdropping? Yeah, I was one. Wow, first Time magazine makes me Man of the Year and now I'm discussed at a Senate hearing.
Hear that Mom? You were right. I am a late bloomer.
