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What a day. It’s been hard to keep up. Between the Dems calling for a special prosecutor to investigate the attorney general this morning to Sen. Lisa Murkowski abandoning her riverfront property on the Kenai River (thanks to a little outfit called TPMmuckraker, which her staff claimed not to have heard of before now) to FBI Director Robert Mueller’s testimony this afternoon, which was devastating to Alberto Gonzales.

But with all that going on, we wanted to dig a little deeper into Gonzales’ statements about the Terrorist Surveillance Program which have plunged him into even deeper hot water with the Senate Judiciary Committee.

So Paul Kiel and Spencer Ackerman have put together a detailed post on the history of the NSA surveillance program and what precisely the Administration has said about it and what Gonzales’ obfuscations may really be about. Call it a grand unified theory of the Gonzales perjury crisis and the warrantless surveillance program.

Go take a look.

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