NY DAILY NEWS
WASHINGTON - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales knew about legal and procedural violations by FBI agents in the months before he told senators that no such abuses had occurred, The Washington Post reported today.
In April 2005, while seeking renewal of the broad powers granted law enforcement under the USA Patriot Act, Gonzales said, "There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse" from the law enacted after the 9/11 terror attacks.
But Gonzales had received at least half a dozen reports describing such violations in the three months before he made that statement. The Post obtained the internal FBI documents under the Freedom of Information Act.
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