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On the day that his Deputy Attorney General resigned here is what Alberto Gonzales had to say about his former top aide:
"You have to remember, at the end of the day, the recommendations [to fire the US Attorneys] reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names," Gonzales told reporters at a National Press Club forum in Washington. "And he would know better than anyone else, anyone in this room, anyone _ again, the deputy attorney general would know best about the qualifications and the experiences of the United States attorneys community, and he signed off on the names."
"Don't blame me, I just work here." I mean, hey, Gonzales is just the US Attorney General, why should he be held accountable? By the way, it now appears the US Attorney firings were driven in large part by Karl Rove's anger that these prosecutors were 'lax' on pushing the GOP's phony voter fraud.
What a back-stabbing weasel. I thought Republicans were big on personal responsibility, but apparently that only applies to the powerless poor people, teenagers, and women. Nobody in this administration ever seems to pay a price for their mistakes.
Meanwhile, the news also came out today that Gonzales (then working at the White House) and Andrew Card browbeat John Ashcroft in the hospital and unsuccessfully pressured him to approve the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping. Ashcroft was so ill from gall bladder surgery that he had temporarily ceded authority to his deputy AG James Comey, who refused to sign off on the scheme. So, off the Bush enforcers trot to the hospital to get a better answer from Ashcroft, who also refused to give his OK - irrelevant because he wasn't even the AG at the time. This is the disdain Gonzales had for the law and the Department of Justice when he was at the White House - so Bush put him in charge of it.
"You have to remember, at the end of the day, the recommendations [to fire the US Attorneys] reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names," Gonzales told reporters at a National Press Club forum in Washington. "And he would know better than anyone else, anyone in this room, anyone _ again, the deputy attorney general would know best about the qualifications and the experiences of the United States attorneys community, and he signed off on the names."
"Don't blame me, I just work here." I mean, hey, Gonzales is just the US Attorney General, why should he be held accountable? By the way, it now appears the US Attorney firings were driven in large part by Karl Rove's anger that these prosecutors were 'lax' on pushing the GOP's phony voter fraud.
What a back-stabbing weasel. I thought Republicans were big on personal responsibility, but apparently that only applies to the powerless poor people, teenagers, and women. Nobody in this administration ever seems to pay a price for their mistakes.
Meanwhile, the news also came out today that Gonzales (then working at the White House) and Andrew Card browbeat John Ashcroft in the hospital and unsuccessfully pressured him to approve the Bush administration's illegal wiretapping. Ashcroft was so ill from gall bladder surgery that he had temporarily ceded authority to his deputy AG James Comey, who refused to sign off on the scheme. So, off the Bush enforcers trot to the hospital to get a better answer from Ashcroft, who also refused to give his OK - irrelevant because he wasn't even the AG at the time. This is the disdain Gonzales had for the law and the Department of Justice when he was at the White House - so Bush put him in charge of it.
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