The letter by director of national intelligence at the time, John Negroponte, as well as public testimony by CIA Director Michael Hayden, seems to contradict sworn testimony by Gonzales this week about a crucial intelligence briefing for congressional leaders on activities in the White House Situation Room on March 10, 2004. The letter specifically lists the March 10 meeting as one of a number of “briefings” about the “Terrorist Surveillance Program.”
So which is it? Are there more programs and he was lying about that, or is there just the one and he was lying about the disagreement and now the statement that the disagreement was about a different program? |