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New Emails Make Gonzales Look Even Worse

By Justin Gardner | Related entries in General Politics, Law

Seriously. Kind of hard to believe, but there it is.

The e-mails show how D. Kyle Sampson, then the attorney general’s chief of staff, and other Justice officials prepared to use a change in federal law to bypass input from Arkansas’ two Democratic senators, who had expressed doubts about placing a former Republican National Committee operative in charge of a U.S. attorney’s office. The evidence runs contrary to assurances from Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that no such move had been planned.

And here’s the irony…

“This was a very loyal soldier to the Republicans and the Bush administration, and they wanted to reward him,” said Sen. Mark Pryor (D-Ark.). “They had every right to do this, but it’s the way they handled it, and the way they tried to cover their tracks and mislead Congress, that has turned this into a fiasco for them.”

That’s the thing! If they would have just been upfront about all this stuff, people would have been pissed…but tough. That’s politics. Instead, we have this mess…all caused by what appears to be a good dose of hubris.

Meanwhile, Giuliani defends him…

“The President has addressed it,” Giuliani, the former New York City mayor, said. “The Attorney General’s an honorable man. He’s a decent man. He should be given a chance to explain and everybody should sort of give him the benefit of the doubt and allow him to explain.”

Does anybody else think it’s a little late for that?

Meanwhile, Gonzales says he won’t resign…

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3 Responses to “New Emails Make Gonzales Look Even Worse”

GN Says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 2:32 pm
Standard M.O. for the entire adminstration …. and it’s too late for sure … but won’t make a difference in the outcome. They will do as they choose.
bob in fl Says:
March 23rd, 2007 at 4:06 pm
ditto
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