Gonzales got some 'splainin to do
"Mommy, why is the lying man still in charge of the law?"
...as Jon Stewart asked.
Let's make this fun .. everytime Attorney General Gonzales lies, we have to take a drink.
Oh my poor liver...
"WASHINGTON - The head of the FBI contradicted Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' sworn testimony and Senate Democrats requested a perjury investigation Thursday in a fresh barrage against President Bush's embattled longtime friend and aide.
...On Tuesday, Gonzales repeatedly and emphatically denied that the dispute was about the terrorist surveillance program."
CNN said a Gonzales spokesman maintained that the attorney general stands by his testimony.
From what I hear, witnesses are given the chance to review and correct their testimony. This guy won't even do that? Is he that dumb? He could just say that he was mistaken or something.
Or that he just can't keep track of so many lies and slipped up.
Yet .. why would he bother changing his testimony with Commutation Guy sitting in the Oval Office?
Much ado about nothing you say? You say that US Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and can be fired at any time for any reason?
Sorry bucky, but serving "at the pleasure of the President" is NOT to say that they can be fired for any reason at all.
Say .. what if aides of a top leader of one party hinted -- in a period of time shortly before the election -- that attorneys need to prosecute politicians from the other party as much as possible .. AND to prosecute politicians from the same party as little as possible?
And what if just hinting was not successful, so to put a little pressure on the attorneys, said aides created a list of attorneys to be fired .. the very ones who had failed to prosecute politicians from party A and not prosecute those of party B.
Then they were fired ILLEGALY .. period.
But hey, even if you think US Attys can be fired at the pleasure of yada yada .. do you still think that the Attorney General can perjure himself during Congressional hearings without fear of repercussions?
Sorry .. lying to Congress is a crime no matter why he chose to lie.
Incoming! Here comes some Bush polyps chucking a Bill Clinton deflection grenade!
"Oh Yeah .. well Bubba lied!"
Who could've guessed that the greatest threat to America today is what Bill Clinton did 15 years ago?
My bet is that Gonzales and the White House are covering up other crimes .. the firing of the attorneys is the tip of the ice berg. Dana Millbank said the other night that there are so many scandals in the DOJ under Gonzales that Democrats are having a hard time focusing on just one.
Getting a Special Prosecutor to issue subpoenas is a sure way to circumvent Executive Privilege .. but that could be a long road. It took Ken Starr almost two years before he could issue criminal subpoenas .. but then he was on a fishing expedition and got lucky finding Lewinsky. This time they know what they're going after.
Wouldn't it be great if -- for just this once, regardless of political persuasion -- we could all just agree that this Gonzales guy is an incompetent lackey who has no business whatsoever leading an organization as important as DOJ?
I won't hold my breath....
