In 2nd Term, No Doubt About It

The * Liars Club continues beefing up its bullshit...

Thursday, January 20, 2005; Page A04

President Bush and his Cabinet nominees have been sending a firm message as they kick off a second term: no mistakes, no regret, no comment.

In testimony Tuesday and yesterday before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Condoleezza Rice, Bush's choice to be secretary of state, angrily rebuffed invitations to admit a foreign policy mistake during the first term.

"Senator," Rice told Sen. Barbara Boxer when the California Democrat said Rice "can't admit to an error," "we can have this discussion in any way that you would like, but I really hope that you will refrain from impugning my integrity. Thank you very much."

Two weeks earlier, before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Alberto R. Gonzales, Bush's pick to be attorney general, professed no recollection of his role in the writing of a controversial memo that narrowly defined what constitutes torture. This week, he refused requests to research the origin of the memo.

"I have no such notes and I have no present knowledge of any such notes, memoranda, e-mails or other documents and I have not conducted a search," Gonzales wrote in response to a request that he document his role. Even if he were to locate such documents, Gonzales added, they "would involve predecisional deliberations that I am not at liberty to disclose."

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A22187-2005Jan19?language=printer

I thought to be impugned you had to have been pugned.....

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