Gore calls for special counsel on eavesdropping - Yahoo! News

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Former Vice President
Al Gore called on Monday for an independent counsel to investigate whether
President George W. Bush broke the law in authorizing domestic eavesdropping without court approval.

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales plans to testify in Senate hearings, expected next month, to give the administration's legal justification for the secret domestic eavesdropping operation.

'A special counsel should be immediately appointed by the attorney general to remedy the obvious conflict of interest that prevents him from investigating what many believe are serious violations of law by the president,' Gore said in a speech to the American Constitution Society and the Liberty Coalition.

Gore, the Democrat defeated by Bush in the 2000 presidential election, said the eavesdropping operation threatened the foundation of U.S. democracy, and he recalled the
FBI's secret surveillance of Martin Luther King, on the U.S. holiday commemorating the civil rights leader."