It's Time Again For Another Round Of "Save Your Ass!"

Gonzales denies talks on attorney firings






Today's player is U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales!

U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under pressure to resign, said on Friday he did not recall being involved in talks on dismissing individual federal prosecutors, disputing testimony by his former chief of staff.

Saying he is "fighting for the truth," Gonzales acknowledged confusion over of role in the firings, which critics charge were politically motivated. He said he had directed former aide Kyle Sampson to evaluate the government's 93 U.S. attorneys to determine where changes might be needed.

"I don't recall being involved in deliberations involving the question of whether or not a U.S. attorney should or should not be asked to resign," Gonzales told reporters after a forum on child safety at the federal courthouse in Boston.

It looks like he's pulling a page from Ronald Reagan's book! How exciting! "I don't recall...." "I disremember...."




Wow, his short term memory must really be lacking because if I called for the firing of 8 prosecutors who didn't support the president during last year's election cycle, I don't think I'd forget about it that quickly. After all, it's only March. It's not like we're hearing about this a year after the fact, like we have with previous problems/scandals. Tsk, tsk.

Karl Rove Complacent in U.S. Attorney Purge, May Have Had Larger Role Than First Thought

E-Mails Highlight Rove's Role In Firings, Bush's Top Political Adviser Took More Active Role In Dismissal Of U.S. Attorneys - CBS News



It looks like the devil himself, may have had a larger role than first admitted to by the White House in the purging of several prominent and successful U.S. Attorneys.
Special negative attention was given to those attorneys who practiced in heavily contested battleground congressional race states and which they refused to illegally investigate Democratic politicians running for those heavily contested seats.

I really hope this is the end of the line for Rove.
His very existence in the current Bush White House lays credence to the fact that incompetence and loyalty outweigh performance and doing the right thing.
I would go as far to brand Rove a traitor to this country, to the very values, freedoms and ideologys this great country was built on.

If there is any justice in this world, this man must go to prison, be locked away for years to come in a situation where the warden throws away the key.
Then again, this is the cruel world of politics where justice, fairness and truth are often not good bedfellows...

E-mails released this week, including a set issued Thursday night by the Justice Department, appear to contradict the administration's assertion that Mr. Bush's staff had only limited involvement in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, which Democrats have suggested were a politically motivated purge. Each new piece in the rapidly unfolding saga of how the prosecutors came to be dismissed has made it more difficult for the White House to insulate itself from the controversy. The latest e-mails between White House and Justice Department officials show that Rove inquired in early January 2005 about firing U.S. attorneys.

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