Next, an all expense paid Duck Hunt with Dick Cheney
Gosh, it seems like only yesterday that AG Alberto Gonzales was on TV telling the whole country that he barely even knew what was going on in his department .. had NO idea that his Justice Dept. was planning to fire a bunch of US Attorneys -- and he *certainly* didn't actively participate in any discussions about it.
The Associated Press, Saturday, March 24, 2007; 6:08 AM
WASHINGTON -- Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he was not involved in any discussions about the impending dismissals of U.S. attorneys.
On Friday night, however, the Justice Department revealed Gonzales' participation in a Nov. 27 meeting where such plans were discussed.
WASHINGTON -- Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said he was not involved in any discussions about the impending dismissals of U.S. attorneys.
On Friday night, however, the Justice Department revealed Gonzales' participation in a Nov. 27 meeting where such plans were discussed.
The firings of eight prosecutors has since led to a political firestorm and calls for his ouster.
At that meeting, the attorney general and at least five top Justice Department officials discussed a five-step plan for carrying out the firings of the prosecutors, Gonzales' aides said late Friday.[..]
Geez Al, the legal system becomes meaningless if it ceases to be impartial.
Isn't it cute how they hold stuff like this for Friday .. bad-news-and-embarrassing-document-dump-day ...
And there was the White House .. maintaining all along that Gonzalez was not involved in the decision.
Not involved…but according to the documents, on November 27, there was an hour-long meeting, Gonzalez and Sampson were both present, and the Attorney General signed off on it.
Here is where you can read the documents:
Who wants to bet that Gonzalez is gone by next Friday-bad-news-dump-day?
If there is anything that the Bushies are good at, it is delegating the authority for incompetence to toady underlings.
And you know .. Gonzales probably had so many things on his plate at the time, and he simply forgot. Like Libby did.
When you are that heavily involved in effing over the American people and their constitution .. well, things just start to get a little blurry.
And now we should probably just let this drop .. otherwise, we'd be making this whole thing political .. and we wouldn't want that now, would we? <snort>
Bush nicknamed Alberto "Little Fredo" .. maybe because in the Godfather movies all poor Fredo was trusted with was picking people up at the airport and serving as a bagman.
I guess Preznit Machiavelli didn't realize that Little Fredo would be too eager to please and in over his head .. not to mention so dumb that he got caught red handed.
All roads lead to Rove.
Rove is surely behind this selective document dump .. you know, to position Little Fredo to take the fall .. like he did with Libby.
On top of their crimes, they're becoming boring through repetition.
Please please please .. may the political pressure to allow access to Rove, and all relevant documentation, become enormous and irresistible.
They don't even have to frog-march him ...
