I watched most of the hearing thru a link at MSNBC.com and watched Sen Sessions make it sound like the AG is doing a great job, then I watched Sen Schumer tear into him over FISA, and the most beautiful one was Senator Patrick Leahy on the renditions.
I have never seen a more thorough ass chewing of a government official in a hearing before. Maybe I haven't watched many of them but Gonzalez could only sputter.
The hearing is going to restart at 2:00 pm EST and I will live blog the rest of it,I watched Senator Spector nail him over Habeas Corpus and even he was astouned by Gonzalez's answer that they had the right to withhold Habeas since the Constistution doesn't guarantee every person Habeas Corpus, it just says that you can't deny them Habeas, Senator Spector told him to stop right there, because the ice was getting might thin, Spector was pizzed.
It should get real good at 200pm I hope some of you can join me as I blog it.
If another diary has been posted I will delete this one I looked before I started typing and didn't see one.
UPDATE: Here is a quote from the MSNBC article
Conflicting opinions
Gonzales, testifying Thursday front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, said he may not be able to release details of the order.
"Are you saying that you might object to the court giving us a decision that you publicly announced?" committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., asked. "Are we Alice in Wonderland here?"
Responding, Gonzales said it was "not my decision to make."
"There is going to be information about operational details about how we're doing this that we want to keep confidential," he said.
UPDATE 2: I added links to the NY Times, WAPO and CNET News articles at the bottom of the discussion