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Gonzales: "I Am Fighting for The Truth"
Inspiring words from the AG:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, amid a growing clamor for his resignation, acknowledged Friday confusion about of his role in firing eight U.S. attorneys but said he doesn't "recall being involved in deliberations" over which prosecutors were to be ousted."I believe in truth and accountability and every step that I've taken is consistent with that principle," Gonzales said when asked why he is not heeding calls to resign. "I am fighting for the truth as well."
Gonzales said he had his former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, coordinated performance evaluations for the 93 U.S. attorneys "to see where changes might be appropriate."
"I signed off on the recommendations and signed off on the implementation plan, and that's the extent of my involvement," he told reporters....
Of course, Gonzales' denial that he was involved in "any deliberations" about firing the U.S. attorneys doesn't mean much. If Sampson's testimony yesterday was any guide, there doesn't appear to have been any deliberations at all.
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Speaking of resignations, from today's San Diego Union Tribune:
Chastised head of local FBI office anounces retirement
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/politics/20070329-1206-bn29fbi.html
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March 30, 2007 3:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
At first I thought he would want to spent more time with his family, but this one is really starting to look like a trip to rehab will be called for if he stays much longer. What the hell is he thinking?
March 30, 2007 3:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
Perhaps he has early stage Alzheimer's. If he is not able to recall such things, perhaps he should not serve as the Attorney General of the United States!
March 30, 2007 3:18 PM | Reply | Permalink
Fighting for the truth, eh?
The only truth Gonzo is fightin for is the truth of needing a private sector job before resigning.
That is the only search for truth he is engaged in.
He ain't a Rove boy, that truth is pushing him out.
Code is same...as in same song, different verse a little bit louder and a whole lot worse
March 30, 2007 3:27 PM | Reply | Permalink
If Sampson's testimony is to be credited as -cough- accurate (a big IF)...abu G should be fired for GROSS malfeasance in office by allowing a chief of staff who is unable to remember his own name, to make epochal decisions without notes, documentation or basis in reality...puh-leeze.
March 30, 2007 3:30 PM | Reply | Permalink
His excuse to cover for the fact that he was trying to turn the Justice Department into an RNC branch office is to claim that he wasn't doing his job.
Only in the Bush administration would that allow you to stay in office.
March 30, 2007 3:32 PM | Reply | Permalink
me too, I'm fighting for the truth too.
March 30, 2007 3:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
"I am fighting for the truth as well."
Lord help us if he gets his hands on it, because we'll never see it again...
March 30, 2007 3:40 PM | Reply | Permalink
One word: Bwaaahahahahah
SC: animal
March 30, 2007 3:49 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Bush Admin plan on dealing with this scandal: Incompetence as cover up or "I am too stupid to do anything wrong or unethical on purpose."
March 30, 2007 4:02 PM | Reply | Permalink
So is Alberto saying that he signed something without bothering to read it? He approves whatever his subordinates put in front of him without question? Does this mean he is just a rubber stamp for his subordinates ? For him, respondeat superior has flipped to respondeat inferior. That the man who is asserting such foolishness is the Chief Legal Officer for the country is pathetic.
March 30, 2007 4:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
Mr. Torture: "I am fighting for the Truth. I know it's out there somewhere, just like victory in Iraq."
March 30, 2007 4:46 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, the truth is always such a battle. However, history being written by the victors it'd be healthy to assume he's fighting for his version of events to be taken as the truth. This is the way it's always been: the truth is determined by those who control the message and the talking points.
March 30, 2007 5:01 PM | Reply | Permalink
So we've got:
The Decider
The Shooter
The Perjurer
The Aggregator - Sampson
The Implementor - AbuG
I don't even know what properly describes all that Rover does. Can I swipe from BtVS and call Rove "The First"?
And is Goodling 'The Analzyer'?
March 30, 2007 5:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Bullshit Gonzo.
You are a lawyer. Lawyer's do not search for the truth in the USA, which has an adversarial legal system. It's all about one side winning, and that's exactly what you are doing now.
March 30, 2007 5:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I think the Implementor is tring to say that Rove is the Deliberator.
March 30, 2007 5:31 PM | Reply | Permalink
Suddenly everyone in the Bush Govt. seems to be forgetting everything. This strategy beats lying for sure ... Lurita Doan, Gonzalez, Sampson -- everyone is forgetting a whole lot all of a sudden. Maybe Dr. Howard Mierzwaik from Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind has been hired on a retainer to work with administration officials called to testify before Congress...
March 30, 2007 5:43 PM | Reply | Permalink
Alternatively, he could be telling the truth. Rove sends word to sign here and Abu G signs. He knows nothing other than who told him to sign which he will not say. And are we supposed to believe that these attorneys were fired without Bush even knowing about it? We have an administration not run by the President and a Justice Dept. not run by the AG.
March 30, 2007 7:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
The Justice Department officials who were selected to be interviewed hit merely the tip of this iceberg. It is extremely important that the House and Senate Judiciary Committee's interview John Nowacki, Principal Deputy Director as well as the Acting Counsel to the Director in the Executive Office of the Justice Department, in order to establish the links between the Justice Department officials, the US Attorney's in the field, and the political operatives who helped remove the targeted US Attorney's. I have gathered and organized every document released so far from the Justice Department relating to John Nowacki as well as background information on his relationship with the Federalist Society. You will be shocked at how many key pieces of information he gives to Paul McNulty, William Moschella, Michael Elston, William Mercer, Monica Goodling, and former employees Michael Battle and Kyle Sampson.
This story on John Nowacki, including updates, can be found at: http://misterapologist.blogspot.com/
March 30, 2007 8:07 PM | Reply | Permalink
He needs an editor "I am fighting for the truth."
March 30, 2007 8:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
Ah, I see his problem. He has the same HTM editor we have... We apparently cannot post the strike out htm... so, I was trying to strike out "for"....
March 30, 2007 8:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gonzo fighting for the truth is like OJ looking for the real killer.
March 30, 2007 8:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gonzales seems to be the kind of person who imagines that if he smirks enough and repeats platitudes enough we will become willing dupes of his self adoration.
March 30, 2007 10:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Pointing out that a prosecutor was fired because they were prosecuting people of the wrong party isn't inappropriate. It's very inappropriate for their superiors to force them to retire. It's inappropriate to prevent them from communicating with Congressmen when they believe the Justice Department took an unethical and possibly illegal action to obstruct a federal prosecution.
There's only one answer for this. INDEPENDENT COUNSEL. This goes way beyond typical Washington politics.
Fiat iustitia, ruat caelum!
March 30, 2007 10:47 PM | Reply | Permalink
Scuse me, but did not Samson say that his recomendations were not summarily signed off on, and were taken and then reevalutated by the upper people. So, ipso fatso, if Gonzo says HE signed and approved, then who is in between Samnson and Gonzo, if Sampson IS Gonzo's CHeif of staff?
Helllooo!
code=seem
March 31, 2007 12:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
If we take Gonzales at his word, his defense is, in essence, that he failed to do his job as Attorney General--oversee and manage the Department of Justice: he just signed off on sheets given him by underlings.
Impeachment time! Resignation is too good for this derelict.
March 31, 2007 1:38 AM | Reply | Permalink
If Beauty is Truth, and Truth is Beauty, all the ugly realities leaking out of the Bush League's Fortress of Ineptitude like sewage from an US contractor-built Iraqi police building are, by definition, not Truth. Gonzo just wants to erase it from our beautiful minds.
March 31, 2007 7:38 PM | Reply | Permalink
It doesn't get any sicker than this. First saw a report on this on DISH TV's INN World Report. No wonder King George is standing behind his AG, he doesn't want the whole sticking shebang to become public.
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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/search.asp
Embattled AG now accused in teen sex scandal 'cover-up'
Attorney General Gonzales among officials who allegedly ignored abuse of minor boys
By Jerome R. Corsi
© 2007 WorldNetDaily.com
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and U.S. Attorney Johnny Sutton, both already under siege for other matters, are now being accused of failing to prosecute officers of the Texas Youth Commission after a Texas Ranger investigation documented that guards and administrators were sexually abusing the institution's teenage boy inmates.
Among the charges in the Texas Ranger report were that administrators would rouse boys from their sleep for the purpose of conducting all-night sex parties.
Ray Brookins, one of the officials named in the report, was a Texas prison guard before being hired at the youth commission school. As a prison guard, Brookins had a history of disciplinary and petty criminal records dating back 21 years. He retained his job despite charges of using pornography on the job, including viewing nude photos of men and women on state computers.
April 1, 2007 8:40 AM | Reply | Permalink
Send this Mexican packing....
April 1, 2007 8:17 PM | Reply | Permalink
One can almost pinpoint the moment the Republican party started becoming the dark underbelly of American culture: July 2, 1964, the date President Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act.
The resulting polarization has had the advantage of (mostly) isolating the regressive elements of society into a single political party instead of into the Devil's deal made between northern Democrats and southern Dixiecrats. At least now, American voters have a clear choice.
Gonzalez's allegiance has always been clear, his methods secretive and transparent at the same time. His obvious transgressions deserve testing in a criminal court. How this works out may be another landmark in American law and politics.
April 2, 2007 4:49 PM | Reply | Permalink