"He didn't have the decency to notify anyone what he was about to testify," Gonzales said of Comey. "That was extremely disappointing."

That about says it all: Gonzales thinks that witnesses should coordinate their testimony. In his world, obstruction of justice is only common decency.

Sadly, he is not cooling his heels in a prison cell... THAT is what his so-called service merits. As for his inability to land a job: what self-respecting law firm would want and lying incompetent in their midsts? And now it appears he is going to lie to his sons. Of course, this is typical GOP behavior.

I won't be happy until I see Gonzales standing on a K Street corner wearing a sandwich board...

"Will lie, cheat and steal for food"

If only I believed in an afterlife, because for this statement alone, Gonzales should suffer the eternal fires of damnation: "I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror."

Can someone please send him a link to photos of some of the ACTUAL casualties of the war on terror? And then explain the causal relationship between his choices and their suffering?

Did you see his last line in the interview? The reporter calls him on a recent lie, and he says, ""At that point, I didn't care."

It's clear that's what he says EVERY day, about everything.

He justifies it all. Nothing was his fault. Everyone is hurting him. Sarcasm befitting a seventh grader. This interview, to my surprise, floored me. I don't usually resort to clinical questions, but I feel provoked. Is he a psychopath, or an arrested pubescent?

and... he has sons? Someone call Child Protective Services.

I think Gonzalez is right, in a sense. Those were times that tried the souls of people in the executive branch, and he was found wanting. Without the War on Terror, he would have lived out his life as a dishonest, barely competent cretin without leaving much of a mark. Instead, he became truly, actively evil.

I think a good long stint in solitary would give him time to reflect on this fact, and perhaps to repent.

Why don't we make him a prisoner of the War on Terror and subject him to his own rulings out there at Club Gitmo.

What does it mean to be a victim of the "war on terror" for Gonzo? Did he get shot at in Iraq? Did he get unlawfully detained at gitmo? Did he get illegally tortured? Did he get illegally wiretapped? How can you call yourself a victim when you are the perpetrator. If he is a victim then so are Bush and Cheney. Gonzo is a piece of S**t.

Gonzo here is your answer if you or your minions are listening...It comes from a testimony at Nuremberg where the Germans once top legal mind tried to explain himself:

"There was a fever over the land. A fever of disgrace, of indignity, of hunger. We had a democracy, yes, but it was torn by elements within. Above all, there was fear. Fear of today, fear of tomorrow, fear of our neighbors, fear of ourselves. Only when you understand that, can you understand..."

You see you say you are a casualty of the "War on Terror", but you America knew better we knew you are the casualty of the "Permanent Majority Strategy", propelled by the corporate plutocracy that has wormed its way to almost complete control. We also know the following

"...What about those of us, who knew better? We who knew the words were lies and worse than lies? Why did we sit silent? Why did we take part? Because we loved our country! What difference does it make if a few political extremists lose their rights? What difference does it make if a few racial minorities lose their rights? It is only a passing phase."

Those were the words of Janning the top legal mind. Gonzo you are not a casualty of something bigger than yourself, you are a casualty of yourself. For was it this as Janning put it?

"Things that had been denied us [oil corporate plutocracy] as a democracy were open to us now. The world said go ahead, take it! Take it !! Take [Iraq], take [Afghanistan] - remilitarize it - take all of [Middle East].... take it!!

No it was simple manipulation. You see like Germany, the Bush Administration and the entire corporate plutocracy knows that they simply can't take something, they need legal justification and authority and it was you who provided that means.

It was you who allowed the Bush Doctrine to have political life---preemptive war of choice, GITMO, Abu Ghraib and the definition of torture that allowed torture, rendition and perpetual incarceration. It was you who found the justification to spy on every American, then to lie and hide from Congress all this. It was you who gave legal life to all this but not for a mortal war against terror, no for a "Permanent Majority" of the corporate plutocracy.

We know Gonzo, yes we know.

Hear is some advice. Do what the Mob does when they are cornered and can give up bigger fishes. Don't take the sword for them, give up Bush and Cheney. Give up the plutocracy, save your soul.

"I found Ashcroft as lucid as I've seen him at meetings in the White House," he said.

I couldn't help but read this as an evaluation of Ashcroft's level of lucidity when he's not anesthetized. Of course, that's not how Gonzo meant it, more's the pity.

I'd love to know if people like Gonzo believe their own bullshit. It's like Republicans need an intervention, where their families confront them and just tell them it's bullshit, it's bullshit.

What Gonzalez is a victim of is his own desire to slavishly serve an immoral man instead of serving the cause of Justice and the American People.

From the WSJ article:
"Mr. Gonzales was at a meeting in San Antonio the day of Mr. Comey's surprise testimony. "He didn't have the decency to notify anyone what he was about to testify," he said. "That was extremely disappointing." Mr. Comey declined to comment."

Isn't it fascinating that no one at the DOJ would sign off on a "critical" FISA application on the day that Comey testified about the "no legal basis" Program?

I'll remind you that that "critical" FISA application was used by DNI McConnell to convince congress to give Gonzales immunity for any FISA violations.....

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/12/31/105341/20/522/678844

In this new year, Gonzales' blessings include: (1) he is alive, (2) his mentor's new pretend 'think tank' on the SMU campus will soon open, and (3) wealthy Republican-Methodists can fund a position for him - he will find 'work'. These and other circumstances differentiate our former Attorney General from other 'casualties' of the war on terror, such as hundreds of thousands of dead innocent Iraq civilians, four thousand-plus dead innocent American soldiers, an un-known number of dead innocent American mercenaries, the 'enemy combatants' tortured and murdered and countless others 'rendered' (i.e. 'disappeared'). One self-described 'casualty' seeks to clear his name by visiting the editors of the Wall Street Journal, while the families of real casualties visit cemeteries and seek for reasons.

There is a pattern emerging of Bush administration officials, including the president, simply being innocent bystanders while all these horrific things happened on their watch.

Did the Cheney - Libby - Addington axis of evil have such sway that it created unalterable conditions that could not be changed? In the party of personal responsibility, is there such a recognition of failure that no one wants to admit they were responsible? Or is it a little of both?

We'll begin to learn in a couple of weeks when leakers and whistleblowers start coming out of the woodwork once this reign of error is over. My only fear is that the individual stories won't get the attention they deserve because there will be so many of them, and because the media wil be focused on the drama of the incoming new administration.

Another example of the delusions this admin has been operating under.

They see themselves as heros, as soldiers in the war against, well against something, anything. They are hollow, as is their party, as is their president.
Cowards all.

Completely detached from reality.

"What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?"

You testified to Congress, in your capacity as Attorney General of the United States of America, that Americans do not have the right of habeas corpus.

But to hold onto power, they had to empower the neocon and social-conservative (religious) fruitcakes

Hey! Don't forget us, the sons of the working class! We signed on to the Bush/Cheney agenda for a lousy enlisted man's salary and bragging rights. Got a nice car with my re-enlist bonus, too.
And don't forget all my smarter brothers and sisters in the burgeoning domestic security business. A lot of them did pretty well out of it.

"We don't need no religion" as Tommy said. All we neede was a few bucks, and someone we could hate, and we were good.
Obama better have good plans for us. He'd better not leave us out.

President Bush is a real Harvard crook together with all his co-horts(Chenney-Gonzalez & so on).Its time for them to pay for their crimes.Regular people can not get away with all these things commited by the present administration.The republican started the empeachment against President Clinton for less than thi & was on his private life & affairs.Which did not have anything to do with way the country was being run.

Mr. "FORMER ATTY-GEN" Gonzalez might get on Laura
and Conde's list for public support.

THEY'RE DOING SUCH A GOOD JOB TRYING TO PROP UP
GEORGIE BOY'S LEGACY.

Keep on dancing America, the Piper can wait.

"What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?"

As Attorney General, your loyalty was supposed to be to the Constitution, the United States of America, and to the American people. NOT to one individual.

Or didn't they teach you that at Harvard?

It seems a given that Gonzo is a weasel of the most despicable sort. However, a cursory reading between the lines seems to suggest (not surprisingly) that the critters at the top of this fetid food chain (Bush, Cheney, Rumsfeld, et al) have made it clear that reciprocal loyalty, which was once a core value of this administration, is no longer an operative concept.

McClennan seems to have figured this out. Gonzo seems to stupid. The trip wire will be Ms. Harriet. Stay tuned...

"What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?" he [Gonzalez] asked.

Zom-Bush!!!!!

It seems to me that the "fundamentally wrong" action of Gonzalez and a host of others was their unflinching loyalty to George W. Bush and not the Constitution of the United States. It makes perfect sense Monica Goodling had the same sense of shock and awe when they discovered this is a nation of priniciples before President.

My question is WHY is Gonzales and Rove(TURD BLOSSOM) still walking and breathing FREE fresh air. The should be in Orange Jump suits with Legg Irons along with the rest of Bush Crime Family and that includes Bush and Chaney. Two reason why they are still FREE, the CORPORATE CONTROLED MEDIA, the WEAK leader ship of the DEMOCRATIC Party, Pelosi and Reid to begin with.