Attorney General Alberto Gonzales met with some dissent at a Georgetown Law School Forum today, when he gave a speech defending the Bush administration’s domestic spying program. Gonzales tried to sell the law students on the notion that “some critics and news reports have misled Americans about the breadth of the National Security Agency’s surveillance.” But, the Georgetown U law students weren’t buying it…

One student had this message for Alberto Gonzales:

Continuing the Bush administration’s push to win approval for their domestic spying program, Gonzales served up the worn out meme that “the warrantless surveillance is critical to prevent another terrorist attack within the United States and falls within President Bush’s constitutional authority and the powers granted by Congress immediately following the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.”

At a Georgetown Law School Forum, Gonzales said the nation needs “to remember that … it’s imperative for national security reasons that we can detect reliably, immediately and without delay” any al-Qaida related communication entering or leaving the United States.

As he spoke, more than a dozen students stood silently with their backs turned to the attorney general. Outside the classroom where Gonzales was to speak, a pair of protesters held up a sheet that said, “Don’t torture the Constitution.”

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