"It was highly classified, very important and many other lawyers had access. Why not OPR?" asked Specter, R-Pa.

"The president of the United States makes the decision," Gonzales told the committee hearing, during which he was strongly criticized on a range of national security issues by Specter and Vermont Sen. Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), the panel's senior Democrat.

I want to say this is unbelievable, but it's not. This is just par for the course for these bastards. Al Q can kill people and blow up buildings, but they have no way to destroy America. The piece of crap living at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue has done everything he can to do so, and this is simply a prime example of it.

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