Gonzales’ Testimony on Surveillance Was ‘Confusing, Inaccurate, and … Misleading’

http://washingtonindependent.com/50431/gonzales-testimony-on-surveillance-was-confusing-inaccurate-and-misleading

Gonzales’ Testimony on Surveillance Was ‘Confusing, Inaccurate, and … Misleading’
By Spencer Ackerman 7/10/09 4:21 PM


Ah, Alberto Gonzales. After the then-Attorney General presented a slippery account to the Senate Judiciary Committee in July 2007 of, among other subjects, the Bush administration’s warrantless surveillance efforts, a group of Democratic senators quickly moved to investigate Gonzales for perjury. The immediate issue was Gonzales’ assertion that Justice Department employees did not have “reservations” or “concerns” about the legality of the surveillance efforts, when, in fact, former deputy attorney general James Comey had testified in May 2007 that he refused to certify the efforts as legal in March 2004. Most senior Justice and FBI officials even threatened to quit when the administration sought to override Comey.

So what does today’s Inspectors General report say about Gonzales?



Gonzales, by the way, was just hired by Texas Tech’s political science department.

He lied through his teeth.

to provide us useful info! :thumbsup:

Hope yer vacation was pleasant. :hug:

:hug:

So things like him getting a job right now, or the others still being out of jail, sorta makes sense. Currently people are working hard on health care, and energy is in their too.

But I think if they committed crimes they will be prosecuted, and should be. It is not hard to figure out.

Their structure of rules, they created to be used on other people, really give them no avenues to escape prosecution in my view. Although the method and timing can vary from one scenario to another.

His testimony at best was willful ignorance, it does not excuse his criminal activity.