1.0 link 15295 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/glenn-greenwald/the-nsa-fight-begins-stra_b_15295.html For those expecting the first day of the NSA hearings to be the culmination of this scandal or to produce made-for-TV smoking guns, Tuesday was anti-climactic. Alberto Gonzales diligently displayed his principal, defining attribute - a willingness to advocate each and every pro-Bush defense with a degree of blind loyalty that is staggering and, even for Washington, truly rare in its slavish purity. The Justice Department had previously issued multiple, lengthy documents setting forth the Administration's legal defenses of Bush's...

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