Bush’s Monica Problem
Is it time for Gonzales to go? Is he the best man for the Job or is he another Michael Brown?
By Michael Isikoff and Evan Thomas
NewsweekJune 4, 2007 issue – The United States Department of Justice has not always been above politics. John F. Kennedy, after all, appointed his brother and consigliere Robert to be attorney general. But the Justice Department is supposed to stand for the rule of law—to be the enforcer of the laws of the United States, not the place presidents go to get around the law. Independence is an important tradition in the columned limestone building on Constitution Avenue. It is worth remembering that before Richard Nixon could find someone at the Justice Department willing to fire the Watergate special prosecutor in 1973, he had to accept the resignations of the attorney general, Elliot Richardson, and the deputy attorney general, William Ruckelshaus. (Solicitor General Robert Bork finally did the deed.)
So consider these scenes from March 2004, described by two former top Justice officials who, like other ex-officials interviewed by NEWSWEEK, did not wish to be identified discussing sensitive internal matters. Attorney General John Ashcroft is really sick. About to give a press conference in Virginia, he is stricken with pain so severe he has to lie down on the floor. Taken to the hospital for an emergency gallbladder operation, he hallucinates under medication as he lies, near death, in intensive care. On the night after his operation, he has two visitors: White House chief of staff Andrew Card and presidential counsel Alberto Gonzales. As described in public testimony, they want Ashcroft to sign a document authorizing the government’s top-secret eavesdropping program to go on. The attorney general, who thinks the program is illegal, refuses.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18881810/site/newsweek/page/0/
Gonzo is hanging in there, doing his job well. The liberals are just trying to tear him down because he’s hispanic.
Here’s a 20 minute video with James B. Comey.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=hxHjWYA50Ds
I don’t recall copying and pasting this video. Because Gonzales wants to make attempted copyright infringement a felony.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=yQ9wQjU5UWk&mode=related&search=
Al
You have to be joking?
Gonzo looks like a “Chuckie” doll with “black #9″ (It’s a hair color)
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z9Xjv9f9_eg
(Oops black # 1)
Time for the guy to go.
He really does not appear to be too bright, can’t defend himself well (or at all), which is exactly opposite of what you want in somebody of this position.
preussow states in his post #7:
“He (Gonzalez) does not appear to be bright…”
Bingo, perfect example of affirmative action, multiculturalism, etc. And as the elites have decided that “lesser” folks, in massive numbers, should replace the Caucasions, we will see more of this. It will become the norm.
Hugh
This is just a political move combined with the fact that George simply doesn’t have a lot of “chronies” with a lot of sense. Not like Reagan. Politics was Reagan’s favorite pastime since like the ’50s. And he developed a “short list” of friends who were intelligent ect… Say what you will about Reagan but he knew how to delegate authority and found some good people to surround himself with.
(And then there was George Sr. for V.P. Somebody’s bright idea. Not Reagan’s.)