Republicans refuse to defend Gonzales
- From: trudogg <independent@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 29 Jul 2007 12:44:31 -0400
Think Progress:
http://tinyurl.com/338m3v
On Fox News Sunday this morning, former Speaker of the House Newt
Gingrich (R-GA) refused to defend Attorney General Alberto Gonzales
against accusations that he may have perjured himself before Congress.
?It?s very damaging?we badly need an attorney general who is above any
question,? said Gingrich. He continued:
Both the president and country are better served if the attorney
general is a figure of competence. Sadly, the current attorney general
is not seen as any of those things. I think it?s a liability for the
president. More importantly, it?s a liability for the United States of
America.
Later in the show, host Chris Wallace revealed that no
conservative would willingly defend Gonzales on Fox. ?By the way, we
invited White House officials and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary
Committee to defend Attorney General Gonzales,? said Wallace. ?We had
no takers.?
But lucky for Gonzales, the good folks over at the National Review
will carry his water.
http://tinyurl.com/2lxbem
For fun, let's go back to some of his testimony last week:
SCHUMER: I'll let you speak in a minute, but this is serious,
because you're getting right close to the edge right here. You just
said there was just one program -- just one. So the letter, which was,
sort of, intended to deceive, but doesn't directly do so, because
there are other intelligence activities, gets you off the hook, but
you just put yourself right back on here.
GONZALES: I clarified my statement two days later with the
reporter.
SCHUMER: What did you say to the reporter?
GONZALES: I did not speak directly to the reporter.
SCHUMER: Oh, wait a second -- you did not.
(LAUGHTER)
OK. What did your spokesperson say to the reporter?
GONZALES: I don't know. But I told the spokesperson to go back and
clarify my statement...
SCHUMER: Well, wait a minute, sir. Sir, with all due respect --
and if I could have some order here, Mr. Chairman -- in all due
respect, you're just saying, "Well, it was clarified with the
reporter," and you don't even know what he said. You don't even know
what the clarification is. Sir, how can you say that you should stay
on as attorney general when we go through exercise like this, where
you're bobbing and weaving and ducking to avoid admitting that you
deceived the committee? And now you don't even know. I'll give you
another chance: You're hanging your hat on the fact that you clarified
the statement two days later. You're now telling us that is was a
spokesperson who did it. What did that spokesperson say? Tell me now,
how do you clarify this?
GONZALES: I don't know, but I'll find out and get back to you.
....from the Kos
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