On Fox News Sunday, Chris Wallace gratuitously offered a falsehood to spin for White House, regarding its efforts to implement a "terrorist surveillance program" that the Justice Dept. said lacked any legal basis.

Sen. Chuck Schumer said on Fox, in regards to the attempt to get the bed-ridden incapacitated John Ashcroft to approve the program:

Gonzales did not do this on his own. The question is who ordered him to do it. The president was asked. He didn't say yes or no.

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I'm sending letters today to the president, to Vice President Cheney, to Mr. Addington, asking them if they sent Gonzales there or if they know who it is who did it, because the Justice Department's own Office of Legal Counsel said that this program was being done illegally.

Wallace then added:

I should also point out that James Comey, under questioning from Senator Specter, said there was nothing illegal in what the White House did here.

But Comey did not say during his testimony "there was nothing illegal" done.

He said because he's "not a presidential scholar," he wasn't going to say if it is legal or illegal for the president to ignore the Justice Department's conclusions on the legality of the program.