The noose tightens more and more for poor old Alberto Gonzales, the sad little misunderstood jack-boot. As he comes before the Senate again and again, his stories get harder and harder to resolve with out a heavy dose of Peruvian god juice. In truth, the Senate is at this point simply beating the man up for the sake of doing it. We know he’s a lying little weasle, the only reason not to have called for formal charges by now might well be to damage him politically and make him indefensible by the president. A special prosecutor is being called for, and yesterday’s events may well make it happen.
The latest gaff concerns the highly-dubious visit to the sick bed of John Ashcroft while he recovered from surgery. Gonzales has decided to hang his hat on the fact that no, they weren’t talking about T.S.P., but rather some other, as-yet unnamed surveillance program. I guess I must have missed something here, because I don’t get why he would need to volunteer that information, accurately or otherwise?
I mean, what they did was highly unethical, certainly, but not illegal. Yet they admit to having brow-beaten a sick old man in the hospital. What they don’t want to admit is that there was dissent in the ranks over T.S.P. Why? And to do so by opening yet another can of worms and admitting that there was some other program? It makes zero sense to me.
But the Director of the F.B.I. has now directly contradicted the story of Alberto “The Bedpan of Doom” Gonzales. That’s not testimony that is without merit, that top cop’s testimony. This is very, very bad for old Bert. I personally think there’s reason to suspect that a cop seeing his boss get away with murder decided not to let that happen on purpose. Good for him:
F.B.I. Chief Challenges Gonzales’s Testimony – New York Times
At the time, Mr. Gonzales was the White House counsel, and Mr. Ashcroft was recovering from gall bladder surgery. That March night, Mr. Gonzales went to the hospital room with Andrew H. Card Jr., then White House chief of staff.In his testimony before the Senate panel on Tuesday, Mr. Gonzales said the subject in the hospital room was “intelligence activities” under debate in the administration, but not the secret eavesdropping program.
{{Snip}}
The conflict in accounts could be significant, because Mr. Gonzales’s critics have accused him of trying to convey the false impression that the N.S.A. program had spawned no serious dissension within the Bush administration.
So, let’s all set our watches and see how long before we start hearing from The Right about “no underlying crime,” and how Gonzo perjured himself without needing to, so there’s no need to proceed with the travesty of justice that will follow.
Allow me to submit, in advance, that if there’s no underlying crime then there wasn’t any need to lie. As a lawyer, Gonzo should know if indeed there is a crime. So, obstructing justice in this way suggests that either they thought that they might be committing a crime, or else there is some other illegal activity that they’re trying to cover the trail of.
Either way, you lie in court, you pay the price.
Technorati Tags: Alberto Gonzales, Gonzo, Terrorist Surveillance Program
Powered by ScribeFire.
