GONZLES SAYS HE WAS NOT LYING ABOUT KNOWING ABOUT FBI VIOLATIONS

by R J Shulman

WSHINGTON D.C. - As he campainged Congress to renew the Patriot Act in 2004, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that there were "no documented cases of civil liberties abuse." Reports just released reveal that prior to Gonzales' 2004 testimony to Congress, the FBI had sent Gonzales documents that showed the government had obtained information about United States citizens in a manner that constituted legal and procedural violaions.

"I did not lie," Gonzales said when confronted with this new evidence. "because I did not consider those so-called violations as real violations as those actions were taken in support of the war on terror." "It is clear,'' said Presidential Press Seccretary Tony Snow, "that there can be no violations of the law as long as the President approves such action and such action was decided on by our chief decider to be A-OK."