What the Meaning of “Is” Is to Alberto Gonzales.

Today’s lead story in the New York Times brings some clarification–and illumination–to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’ claim that the NSA’s domestic surveillance program was not the subject of that now-infamous March 2004 dispute at John Ashcroft’s hospital bedside. (That’s the episode, alluded to in congressional testimony by former top Justice Department official James Comey and [...]