Consortiumnews.com: "In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee on Feb. 28, Gonzales recanted testimony he gave on Feb. 6 when he declared that Bush had only authorized a narrowly constructed warrantless wiretapping program by the National Security Agency against Americans in touch with foreign terror suspects.

Referring to a part of his testimony in which he said Bush had approved the NSA program ‘and that is all that he has authorized,’ Gonzales withdrew that language, saying ‘I did not and could not address … any other classified intelligence activities.’ [Washington Post, March 1, 2006]

The strained wording of Gonzales’s letter – and the fact that he deemed it necessary to correct his testimony – suggest that other warrantless surveillance programs exist outside the framework of the NSA program, which began shortly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks and was exposed by the New York Times in December 2005."

Emphasis mine.

(Via cypherpunks.)