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· Story link At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales evaded most of the four…

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At a recent House Judiciary Committee hearing, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales evaded most of the four dozen questions put to him on domestic wiretapping and surveillance, treatment of potential terrorists and the president’s power to declassify information, according to a just released transcript of the hearing. At one point, a frustrated committee Chair F. James Sensenbrenner Jr, R-WI, lectured the attorney general. (11/3/06)

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