Re: Will Alberto Gonzales Take the Fifth?


"trudogg" <trudogg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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[...it's a constant amazement to me that Bush can find anyone to take
any job he offers. When they say that Washington is filled with liars
and thieves, they are preaching gospel...]


by Brent Budowsky

When we take the dress off the pig, today Kyle Sampson said Alberto
Gonzales is a liar.

The attorney general told the Congress and the nation he was not
involved in the firings of U.S. attorneys. We can dress this up nine
different ways, we can use the weasel words of official Washington,
but this is clear:

Alberto Gonzales lied.

Here is the problem for the President:

He wants to replace Gonzales but has extreme problems finding a
successor who is both honest and will accept the job.

The president is afraid of an honest attorney general because the
trail of wrongdoing would be exposed by an AG who faithfully executes
the law.

The president cannot get an AG who will play the cover-up game,
because the cover-up AG candidates won't accept the job for fear of
being indicted.

This is an administration full of Scooter Libbys protecting ***
Cheneys.

The Gonzales scandal goes far beyond the U.S. attorneys and reaches
into the bowels of the White House, from the days Gonzales was White
House counsel.

In those days Alberto Gonzales was giving legal support to policies of
torture, and to policies of massive violations of the U.S.
Constitution through eavesdropping and other measures, without court
order.

Are there internal e-mails, executive orders, memos or legal opinions
seeking to legalize what is illegal? What did Alberto Gonzales know,
and when did he know it, and what did he write about it, on Abu
Ghraib, and Guantanamo, and violating the Foreign Intelligence
Surveillance Act?

The president must faithfully execute the laws. No attorney general or
White House counsel can advise otherwise, without advising the
president to break the law.

We now know that the secretary of defense and the secretary of state
are advising the president to close Guantanamo, while the attorney
general leads the fight to keep it open. With all due respect .

Alberto Gonzales is a basically nice man who is in over his head. He
is an average attorney elevated to great heights by his sycophantic
devotion to one man. Unfortunately that one man has tendencies that
Republicans from George Will to Chuck Hagel have labeled as
monarchical, and that one man believes he is above the law.

If there ever was a president who desperately needs an attorney
general of stature, integrity and legal authority it is George W.
Bush. If ever there were an Attorney General who should never be a
sycophant or enabler for George W. Bush, it is Alberto Gonzales.

The president should appoint Jack Danforth as the next attorney
general. Danforth is a former senator, brilliant lawyer and devout
minister of unquestioned integrity and high-stature legal authority.
Danforth won't get the call. Integrity isn't in these guys' playbook.

It's funny how a person like Bush is not ultimately served by an AG who uses
his power to keep on bending the law until they are simply lawbreakers.
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