The Coverup
Jul 29th, 2007 at 10:01 am by Susie
It’s been rolling around my head for days now, because clearly there’s a larger coverup at work with Gonzales’ testimony. But what’s the big picture?
Over at DK, drational has put all the pieces together (if you’ve been following this, go read the whole thing) - basically, that there was much broader illegal surveillance than administration officials have admitted:
The Bush Administration (Including Gonzales) has refused to answer questions about other (controversial) aspects of the NSA warrantless wiretap program as it existed in March 2004 under the grounds of mission-critical secrecy.
The secrecy, however, is almost certainly to cover-up the controversial portion of the program that existed prior to Comey’s issues with it.
Mueller did not use the TSP terminology because he knows the “TSP” did not exist in 2004 - it was a made-up term to dissemble the December 2005 leak. Mueller was being honest and refusing to become entangled in the administration ambiguation, knowing full well that “TSP” is an artificial construct in which the administration has invested heavily, but which is not the full truth. He knows the extent of the NSA-surveillance programs and why they were controversial, and is not getting dragged into the cover-up.
