This morning's Washington Post contains an article about Senator Feingold (D-Wis.). Apparently, his staff reviewed Atty. Gen. Gonzales' confirmation testimony:

In a letter to the attorney general yesterday, Feingold demanded to know why Gonzales dismissed the senator's question about warrantless eavesdropping as a "hypothetical situation" during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in January 2005. At the hearing, Feingold asked Gonzales where the president's authority ends and whether Gonzales believed the president could, for example, act in contravention of existing criminal laws and spy on U.S. citizens without a warrant.

Of course, the Justice Department has no comment because they say that they have not seen the Feingold's letter. The real problem is that Gonzales was knee deep in planning the warrentless wiretaps.

Gonzales was White House counsel at the time the program began and has since acknowledged his role in affirming the president's authority to launch the surveillance effort. Gonzales is scheduled to testify Monday before the Senate Judiciary Committee on the program's legal rationale.

When the chief law enforcement representative is willing to lie, cheat and steal, it is no wonder that he can excuse the illegal actions of his president.