Alberto Gonzales, America's self-acclaimed Top Cop, has spilled the beans on US president George W. Bush over the warrantless wiretap scandal.

Bush, "personally blocked a Justice Department investigation into the antiterrorism eavesdropping program that intercepts international phone calls and e-mails of Americans, administration officials said Tuesday,” according to The Washington Post.

He, "refused to grant security clearances for department investigators who were looking into the role Justice lawyers played in crafting the program, under which the National Security Agency listens in on telephone calls and reads e-mail without court approval, Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee," says the story.

Administration officials said. Bush made the decision, "because he believed there were other avenues of oversight, including investigations by the inspectors general of the Justice Department and the National Security Agency as well as the Intelligence Committees of both houses," according to The New York Times.

“We had to draw the line somewhere,” it has a senior Justice Department official saying, "on condition of anonymity because of lack of authorization to comment".

“There was already lots of oversight on this program, and we had to consider the interest” in protecting the program’s secrecy by limiting the number of people who knew its details," said the anonymous source.

Also See:
The Washington Post - Gonzales says Bush blocked wiretap probe, July 19, 2006
The New York Times - Bush Blocked Ethics Inquiry, July 19, 2006