Comments on: Gonzales Faces New Round Of Questioning

House Judiciary Committee Grills Attorney General On Prosecutor Firings, But Gonzales Reveals Little

[baathsheba]

Best most obvious thing to do with Gonzales types is to throw them in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT with the last spoken words to them being:
When you can remember, tap twice on the door and we will begin taping from outside the door--just start confessing all you could "NOT RECALL" during the first hearing--LIAR--until then, here is where you will stay.
If you cannot recall for ten years, you will be here ten years...
If you cannot recall for the rest of your life? Then you will be here for the rest of your sick life.
But, you might want to start recalling what you thought you could not recall, LIAR.

[susanhelit]

Same page? Short memory again! Tons of story changes, we've found out that entry level prosecutors were being hired on partisan grounds - which is quite explicitly illegal, one more good prosecutor found to be fired for political reasons - we're several chapters in, and moving towards the conclusion. Goodling will be an interesting witness, once she gets immunity to testify to the truth. Which is that obviously the 'Justice' department under Bush has been subverted into being a political branch, and at the very least, Gonzales should be impeached, if Bush is not willing to do the right thing and fire him.

As to the investigation - Congress can subpeona - they're just being nice and letting people come in willingly now.

[hungry1968]

100 hours....100 days......nothing accomplished. Congratulations.
Posted by Infidel_US at 04:27 PM : May 10, 2007

If they had the required 2/3 needed to over ride Captain Dimwit's veto, you'd see a whole lot more accomplished. Just wait until January 2009 when the Democrats have the Presidency and 80% of Congress and the Senate. It won't be perfect because you'll still have politicians running the country, but at least they won't be running it into the ground like the Republicans are.

[baathsheba]

Best most obvious thing to do with Gonzales types is to throw them in SOLITARY CONFINEMENT with the last spoken words to them being:
When you can remember, tap twice on the door and we will begin taping from outside--just start confessing all you COULD NOT RECALL during the first hearing--LIAR--until then, here is where you will stay. If you cannot recall for ten years, you will be here ten years...if you cannot recall for the rest of your life? Then you will be here for the rest of your sick life. But, you might want to start recalling what you thought you could not recall, LIAR.

[infidel_us]

Keep fishing, dems.....maybe you'll catch another "Super Villain" like Scooter Libby. 100 hours....100 days......nothing accomplished. Congratulations.

[uncle_james-2009]

"SusanHelit" but the White House isn't cooperating with this investigation. And nobody is doing anything significant to add to the progress of this case. It looks like a "stalemate" to the people of the United States. These hearings started many months ago and they're still on page one of the so called investigation. The House and Senate have asked the SAME OLE questions and the House and Senate are receiving the SAME OLE answers.

[fascistusa]

Do A VOTE OF "NO CONFIDENCE".

IMPEACH.

FREE AMERICA FROM THIS FASCIST REGIME!!!!!

EVEN RUSSIA IS CALLING THE UNITED STATES THE THIRD REICH. CHAVEZ CALLED LORD BUSH SATAN.

[susanhelit]

Mr. Gonzales has already told at least one verifiable lie! He said, repeatedly, over and over, that they fired 8 - now we know they fired 9. And, yeah, he's lying about the president's powers too - no one, not even the president of the united states, is exempt from the law, nor allowed to obstruct justice.

[fascistusa]

JUST DO A VOTE OF "NO CONFIDENCE"


AND GET THIS OVER WITH.

FREE AMERICA FROM THIS FASCIST REGIME!!!

EVEN RUSSIA IS CALLING THE UNITED STATES THE THIRD REICH NOW.

IT"S THE GAME AXIS AND NO ALLIES FOR THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES.

[fascistusa]

JUST DO A VOTE OF "NO CONFIDENCE"


AND GET THIS OVER WITH.

FREE AMERICA FROM THIS FASCIST REGIME!!!

EVEN RUSSIA IS CALLING THE UNITED STATES THE THIRD REICH NOW.

IT"S THE GAME AXIS AND NO ALLIES FOR THE FORMER REPUBLIC OF THE UNITED STATES.

[uncle_james-2009]

"SusanHelit"
I heard Mr. Gonzales say that the President has the power to appoint and to remove from office any or all of the U.S.Attorneys for any reason that the President sees fit.

Mr. Gonzales has an education of the highest quality from Harvard University. I don't believe he would tell us a lie about this power that the President possesses.

I also believe Mr. Gonzales finds this whole matter about appearing before the House and Senate to answer questions that DO NOT HAVE TO BE ANSWERED to be comical and laughable!

[bigal321321]

When does loyalty and corruption come together? I think this story has something to do with it. Just read between the lines. Gonzo shouldn't have to defend himself with the "I can't remember" BS line. On the other hand if he envoked the 5th he'd be in serious trouble just by looking guilty. I believe Monica Goodling knows all the answers. Just getting her to tell the truth is the trick.

[gkc99]

Forget questioning this clown and impeach him! Then he will have to stop stonewalling.

On the other hand, leave him in place to remind voters next year of how Bushit stinks.

[susanhelit]

Uncle_James - do you have a really short memory, or have you forgotten an obnoxious 100 subpeonas against the White House, for firing travel agents? That - that was wrong. This is a very important matter, obstruction of justice. Our justice system is not to ever be partisan, and Bush's administration has attempted to make it so. That's illegal, and contrary to everything this country stands for. Third-world dictatorships, maybe there you expect the prosecutor to be corrupt, and prosecute you based on how much you agree with the dictator. Not here. No matter how much you may want it that way. Not EVER.



BTW: Wonder where the question was about Gonzales's lie from last time that only 8 prosecutors got told to leave? Another one has popped up who also was told to get out to make room for a Rove toady.

[susanhelit]

Uncle_James - wherever you've heard that - it's wrong. It is not at all "any reason". He can't fire them to obstruct justice, period. Ask Nixon - one of the reasons he had to resign to avoid the impeachment was his attempt to fire an inconvenient US Attorney.


At the start of an administration, it is indeed traditional to replace the whole lot of them, every single one. That's very, very different than firing the ones who either are engaged in investigations of criminal activity against your friends, or who have inconveniently found no evidence of criminal activity by your enemies.


Huuuuuuuuuuuuge difference between that, and the routine changing of the guard with a new administration. Kinda a 'duh' bit really - don't you think if it was legal, other presidents would have done it? Told their prosecutors to only prosecute democrats? Or maybe drop prosecutions against anyone willing to make really big campaign donations to republicans? Nope.



Carol Lam, for example, was appointed by Bush. An excellent U.S. Attorney, and a Republican, and an honest prosecutor. Ran the investigation that caught the biggest corruption case ever in Congress - Randy 'Duke' Cunningham who sold our military's contracts to anyone willing to pay, rather than the best. Suddenly, after plenty of huge praise, she makes the list to be fired in an email the very day after she lets her superiors know that another corruption case, against a big Republican donor, has come up.

[susanhelit]

Uncle_James - wherever you've heard that - it's wrong. It is not at all "any reason". He can't fire them to obstruct justice, period. Ask Nixon - one of the reasons he had to resign to avoid the impeachment was his attempt to fire an inconvenient US Attorney.


At the start of an administration, it is indeed traditional to replace the whole lot of them, every single one. That's very, very different than firing the ones who either are engaged in investigations of criminal activity against your friends, or who have inconveniently found no evidence of criminal activity by your enemies.


Huuuuuuuuuuuuge difference between that, and the routine changing of the guard with a new administration. Kinda a 'duh' bit really - don't you think if it was legal, other presidents would have done it? Told their prosecutors to only prosecute democrats? Or maybe drop prosecutions against anyone willing to make really big campaign donations to republicans? Nope.



Carol Lam, for example, was appointed by Bush. An excellent U.S. Attorney, and a Republican, and an honest prosecutor. Ran the investigation that caught the biggest corruption case ever in Congress - Randy 'Duke' Cunningham who sold our military's contracts to anyone willing to pay, rather than the best. Suddenly, after plenty of huge praise, she makes the list to be fired in an email the very day after she lets her superiors know that another corruption case, against a big Republican donor, has come up.

[uncle_james-2009]

The White House isn't cooperating with this investigation BECAUSE THEY DON'T HAVE TO!!!
What don't you UNDERSTAND about that statement?

[rharrin1]

When he says he can't remember the next question to him should be can you remember your name and keep doing it.

[terrapin78]

what do you call an organization that:

kills you if you don't join it...
kills you if you leave it...
kills you if you don't do what they tell you to do..
kills you if you speak against it%u2026.
kills anybody that is not a member of it...
still practices pagan rituals...
allows the r a p e of babies and animals...

a. satanic cult???
b. islam???
c. all the above???
Posted by lars008 at 02:30 PM : May 10, 2007

I CALL IT THE REPUBLICAN PARTY!!!!!!

[uncle_james-2009]

"SusanHelit", so you're saying that the President CANNOT fire U.S.Attorneys without having to explain why he fired them if a member or members of the House and/or Senate would like for the President to explain why he fired them.
I've heard for months that the President can fire U.S.Attorneys for ANY REASON! Does ANY REASON mean to you ANY REASON or does it mean ALMOST ANY REASON to you?

If the Presidents have to explain why they fired the attorneys, there would have been a very large amount of investigations in the past administrations. But there have not been, and the reason is because the President has the power to move U.S.Attorneys into and out of their offices without elaborating on why he did this. And this is why I cannot understand the reason for Mr. Gonzales appearing before the House and Senate, just so he can bypass the questions of the House and Senate members(without any fear of his being prosecuted for any crime whatsoever!)

All of this time spend on asking questions that don't HAVE TO BE ANSWERED is a TOTAL WASTE OF TIME for the House and Senate and anyone else
involved. It makes out government look silly because we make a LAW about the President being able to fire the attorneys for ANY REASON and then the Democratic House and Senate boldly IGNORE this LAW by asking for reasons why the attorneys were let go!