Today, Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter will convene the Judiciary Hearing on Wartime Executive Power and NSA’s Surveillance Authority. The guest at this roast will be Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. We know a lot about the day’s events already: Senator Specter has supplied us with 15 questions, and the Democratic committee members with six ‘questions’ of their own (more on that in a moment). We also know roughly the message Gonzales will try to convey, both from recent speeches and a preview that has been published in TIME.
Here, then, is a little Q & A that I hope both the uninitiated and the obsessed may find helpful.