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Gonzales: ‘What Is It That I Did That Is So Fundamentally Wrong?’
Think Progress
Thursday, January 1, 2009
Alberto Gonzales’s legal career at the White House and the Justice Department was a stain even for the Bush administration. Gonzales left office with a 28 percent approval rating, with over 40 percent of the country saying he should resign.
Yet, Gonzales is puzzled to this day why the public frowns upon his tenure in government. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, Gonzales asks, “What is it that I did that is so fundamentally wrong, that deserves this kind of response to my service?” He added, “For some reason, I am portrayed as the one who is evil in formulating policies that people disagree with. I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror.”
Fortunately, we can offer Gonzales some help in figuring out what he did that was so “fundamentally wrong.” Some lowlights:
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Politicized the DOJ: – Gonzales approved the firing and hiring of federal prosecutors for political reasons and lied to Congress about the scandal.
Approved torture: In 2002, Gonzales “raised no objections and, without consulting military and State Department experts in the laws of torture and war,” approved an infamous August 2002 memo giving CIA interrogators “legal blessings.” Gonzales witnessed an interrogation at Gitmo in 2002 and approved of “whatever needs to be done” to detainees.
Lied about warrantless wiretapping: Gonzaled lied to Congress multiple times about the Bush administration’s illegal wiretapping program, saying there wasn’t “any serious disagreement” about the program (there was).
Distorted pre-war intelligence: Last month, the House Oversight Committee revealed evidence showing that Gonzales lied to Congress in 2004 by claiming that the CIA “orally” approved Bush’s claim that Iraq sought uranium from Africa.
Furthermore, it appears Gonzales’s lying streak isn’t over. Gonzales told the WSJ that he didn’t play a central role in drafting the opinions allowing the CIA to use harsh interrogations. “John Yoo had strong views. No one could make him do anything he didn’t want to do,” he said. Gonzales also said he did not lie to Congress about the illegal surveillance program.
Gonzales also bizarrely claimed that he “found [John] Ashcroft as lucid as I’ve seen him at meetings in the White House,” referring to the infamous strong-arming of Ashcroft at his sickbed in 2002 in order to get approval of the illegal wiretapping program. In reality, Ashcroft had a severe case of gallstone pancreatitis and was a “very sick man,” according to then-Deputy Attorney General James Comey.
Since his resignation, Gonzales has still been unable to find work. “Any law firm that does due diligence on me sees all the investigations and the possibility that I might be indicted and they say, ‘Not right now,’” he said.
Gonzales’s bewilderment is similar to that of Vice President Cheney, who recently said he doesn’t have “any idea” why he has such low approval ratings.
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January 1st, 2009 at 7:19 am
good by and good riddence ! you went the way of janet scum reno did against the constitution and its people !
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v.....annel_page
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January 1st, 2009 at 8:04 am
The guy is pure slime. Even if he was honest, he had the be the stupidest and least informed AG ever. As he was being questioned just about evert answer was that he was “unaware” or couldn’t remember.
What didthe guy do in his office all day, sleep and play Windows Solitaire?
January 1st, 2009 at 9:13 am
Worked for Republicans, its a Democrat Government. Is a minority though, so can try discrimination against Dems.
January 1st, 2009 at 10:43 am
??????
Wow. Talk about clueless…
Well, golly gee, Al, let’s make this perfectly clear: You were totally complicit with genuine evilness being genuine evilness. Making you a part of evilness as well.
Does that ring any bells?
January 1st, 2009 at 12:20 pm
No prosecution for the 911 INSIDE JOB? What’s up with that!? Maybe that’s why you’re hated so much you scumbag!
January 1st, 2009 at 3:38 pm
just following orders huh ?
so were the fucking guards at concentration camps in ww2
fuck you assole if your moral compass spins wildly in front of powerful men and you go weak kneed and piss you pants and grovel thats your fucking problem assole.
be a man stand up and have the courage to do the right thing.
i watched eagle eye the movie last night
its crap but the technology is fierce.
the message is also crap as its assumes 9/11 was a terrorist plot from a cave.
but the technolgy again i have to say is damm scary
and remember no evil can ever happen on a large scale unless the minions who operate this stuff ignore their moral compass and blindly follow orders.
again seeing authority as truth instead of truth as the authority is the basic problem.
70% of people torture if given orders by an authority figure!
January 1st, 2009 at 5:11 pm
he just doesnt get it.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:26 pm
Oh, he knows what he did. He is just laying the ground work for a stupidity defense.
January 1st, 2009 at 6:35 pm
This piece of garbage Gonzales don’t get it. The problem dirt bag is that you were born, you are a baby torturing, hunk of shit. a stain on humanity, Jesus stated that it would be better if you tied a stone around your neck and be cast in the sea then to harm one of these little ones (children), and your buddy Yoo the puss drippin scab You can share the same rock, it would be a blessing upon man kind. Your attempt to exculpitize you wrong doings and shift the burden of proof unto the world to prove your guilt, is transparent as glass. piss ant.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:10 pm
Congress is wholly to blame, for allowing all this to happen and failed to restrain, the Executive. and put a leash on this animal before he did this nation harm, and others, What were they so afreid off, black mail, threat off death, from who, Congress should have met in secret called an Emergency sesssion under there rules, and put their dirty luandry on the table for all members to see, and out off respect for the people of this nation and the fear of that people, putt a stop to all this mad ness, Throw out the foreign lobbyest , stop giving Isreal any money. so they cant bribe our polititions with our own money. We need a consitutional convention for the people to have recount powers of “All” polititions and judges for failure to perform, who willfully fail to up hold their end of the Consitutional contract. and be subject to arrest for treason. and this could be done by only a majority vote of the people of any 5 states would be nessisary. and not subject of judicial writ, or review. They want Democracy let them have it. We the people need to have a permenet injunction against foreign lobbyest meeting or comunitcating with any goverment branch except in open congress to plea their needs, the open restoration and enforcement of the original 13th amendment. (the one hidden from the Amerian people) not the other 13th pertainig to slavery,
Amendment XIII
If any citizen of the United States shall accept, claim, receive, or retain any title of nobility or honour, or shall without the consent of Congress, accept and retain any present, pension, office, or emolument of any kind whatever, from any emperor, king, prince, or foreign power, such person shall cease to be a citizen of the United States, and shall be incapable of holding any office of trust or profit under them, or either of them.
January 1st, 2009 at 7:13 pm
sorry for the misspelling
January 1st, 2009 at 9:31 pm
Maybe EVERYTHING you did and said?
report to jail and never come out until your decent into hell to your master!
He said it was ok to torture children, nothing lower than that
Rot in hell you slime bag
January 1st, 2009 at 10:22 pm
Let’s start with the immorality of selling yourself before moving on to corrupting the law and disgracing high office.
January 2nd, 2009 at 2:44 am
I am so happy to read the last part of the article that Gonzales is unable to find work and that no one wants to hire him because Alberto might be sometime under indictment. I think last but not least his law license should be taken away. Alberto needs serious jail time as well as many others that were assisting him in his nwo spree on torture and spying on the American People. Torture is wrong and I Alberto is indicted and the american people have justice. I am glad that some of us that have helped inform others and write our congress and tell our friends had such an effect on helping stop Alberto and letting everyone know about the lies he told to push a nwo agenda. I only wish the new attorney general was an honest man and would listen to the american people. It seems that for some reason the attorney generals cannot comprehend the word torture. Until then we wont have a decent attorney general. In closing I just must say that Alberto Gonzales lied about the spy program and torture and that is probably only the tip on the iceberg that we know he lied about.
January 2nd, 2009 at 4:33 am
Serving Evil Filth MAKES YOU evil filth. So when are all you government and state employees going to resign then? You have NO future until you do.
January 2nd, 2009 at 6:02 am
FCUK BOY BUSH, O”BAAAA”MA BIN LADEN & THOSE NEO-SCUM BLOOD-SUCKERZ !!!
POWER 2 THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, 4 THE PEOPLE
VIVA LA REVOLUTION …………………………………… ALEX JONES 4 PRESIDENT
January 2nd, 2009 at 7:21 am
LOL This is hilarious!
This is up there with Cheney wondering why nobody likes him, and Condie saying that we are all going to soon thank Dubbya for all that he has done.
It’s insanity full circle.
January 2nd, 2009 at 9:47 am
The question should be what did you do right, the real crime was that he was allowed to remain
as attorney general so long. .The attorney general is nothing but a pawn that mirrors the policies of those that appointed him . A payed stooge willing to serve his master for a pay check and a position just like all the bush appointees.
January 2nd, 2009 at 3:27 pm
Shredding the Constitution and lying under oath comes immediately to mind.
January 2nd, 2009 at 10:44 pm
Sounds like any other ignorant punk in juvenile court.
January 3rd, 2009 at 6:17 am
FCUK THE NEO-SCUM BLOOD-SUCKERZ, BOY BUSH & O”BAAAA”MA BIN LADEN TOO !!!!!
TIME TO STAND-UP & BE COUNTED FOLKS. LET’S WIN THIS INFOWAR THAT WE’RE IN !!!
SPREAD THE WORD, LET EVERYBODY KNOW WHAT ALEX HAS TAUGHT US !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RETURN POWER 2 THE PEOPLE, BY THE PEOPLE, & FOR THE PEOPLE
LET THE REVOLUTION BEGIN ………………………………… ALEX JONES 4 PRESIDENT !!!!!!
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:00 am
Anyone mind if I see his law degree? Assuming he really has one.