POST CONSTITUTIONAL AMERICA .

GONZALES THINKS THE CONSTITUTION IS STUPID

AP - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales contended Saturday that some
critics of the Bush administration's warrantless surveillance program
were defining freedom in a way that poses a "grave threat" to U.S.
security. Gonzales was the second administration official in two days to
attack a federal judge's ruling last August that the program was
unconstitutional. Vice President Dick Cheney on Friday called the ruling
"an indefensible act of judicial overreaching." Gonzales told about 400
cadets from the Air Force Academy's political science and law classes
that some see the program as on the verge of stifling freedom rather
that protecting the country.

"But this view is shortsighted," he said. "Its definition of freedom -
one utterly divorced from civic responsibility - is superficial and is
itself a grave threat to the liberty and security of the American
people."

Gonzales and Cheney's attacks on the court order came as the
administration was urging the lame-duck Congress to approve legislation
authorizing the warrantless surveillance. The bill's chances are in
doubt, however, because of Democratic opposition in the Senate, where 60
votes are required to end debate and vote.

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