A disasterous week for Gonzo at the hearings. One foot out the door and the other foot on a banana peel!
In Thursday’s testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales admitted that in Nov. 2006, he approved the firings of several U.S. attorneys “without ever looking at [their] performance reports.” He also admitted that at the time, he didn’t even know why two of the prosecutors — Daniel Bogden in Nevada and Margaret Chiara in Michigan — were on the hit list.
I find it amazing that Gonzo approved of several USA firings and never looked at their performance reports. It makes you wonder if he never looked at any legal documents from the President as Attorney General. And this idiot and incompentant Attorney General was hired by an idiot and incompentant President whose job performance and Presidency are on life support! Now, Gonzo stated over and over that he cannot recall Fitzgerald's evaluation, aspects to the USA firings, and so on. Gonzo even said that Fitzgerald was an outstanding prosecutor. Here is my question: who exactly makes the decision to fire U.S. Attorneys that didn't serve at the 'pleasure of the President': President Bush or Gonzo. Gonzo said that he is unaware of the USA firings, USA evaluations, or the secret meetings to boot out certain USAs. Whereas, the Decider-in-chief said in one news conference that he is the decider of who gets fired as a U.S. Attorney. Let's refresh the minds of Bush and Gonzo from Bush's news conference in Chicago in July 7, 2006 Here is the transcript:
QUESTION: Thank you very much.
Mr. President, the work of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in prosecuting alleged corruption is well-known here in Chicago as well as nationally. It's my understanding that, technically, he hasn't been reappointed to his position and serves at your pleasure.
Do you have any plans to formally reappoint him to the post or any other position in the Department of Justice? And...
Mr. President, the work of U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald in prosecuting alleged corruption is well-known here in Chicago as well as nationally. It's my understanding that, technically, he hasn't been reappointed to his position and serves at your pleasure.
Do you have any plans to formally reappoint him to the post or any other position in the Department of Justice? And...
BUSH: As a special prosecutor.
QUESTION: And would you give us your assessment of the job that he's doing?
BUSH: You know, I don't have any plans to reappoint him because I haven't thought about it.
BUSH: I will now think about it now that you brought it up.
The only -- I can give you an assessment of what -- how I thought he handled the case in Washington. I haven't been following the cases here.
I thought, in Washington, he handled the case with professionalism. He was very professional about it. You didn't see a lot of leaks. You didn't see a lot of speculation. You didn't see a lot of people, kind of, dropping a little crumb here for the press to chew on. And I really thought he handled himself well.
That's his choice to make. But as far as reappointing him as the special prosecutor, I don't know whether the attorney general's going to do that or not. That's his choice to make.
The only -- I can give you an assessment of what -- how I thought he handled the case in Washington. I haven't been following the cases here.
I thought, in Washington, he handled the case with professionalism. He was very professional about it. You didn't see a lot of leaks. You didn't see a lot of speculation. You didn't see a lot of people, kind of, dropping a little crumb here for the press to chew on. And I really thought he handled himself well.
That's his choice to make. But as far as reappointing him as the special prosecutor, I don't know whether the attorney general's going to do that or not. That's his choice to make.
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Yes Gonzo needed legal representation during his Congress hearing. Now Elle Woods would have helped but I would have loved to see Judge Al represented by SPB. Elle would have had to have Gonzo dress in pink. Then alot of Congressmen would have come out of the closet. I think the saying goes only a fool represents himself.
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