Alberto Gonzales Screws the Pooch
Oh, dude. You did not just say that. Did you not get the memo? Al: the White House would prefer that their team (that's you) not comment during an ongoing criminal investigation, out of respect for the rule of law (also you).
Attorney General and former White House Council Alberto Gonzales stated over the weekend that he waited twelve hours to inform "anyone" about a pending criminal investigation surrounding the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity...just before he stated that he "immediately informed Chief of Staff Andrew Card". Problems already. According to Mr. Gonzales, who was notably NOT nominated to the Supreme Court last week, the Justice Department (which he now heads) first called to inform his office of the investigation at 8pm, when most staffers had gone home. Like a good lawyer, he had a staffer call back to the Justice Department to ask them, for the record, if it would be "OK" to wait until morning to secure evidence. Again, I say -- Dude. When the Justice Department calls you at 8:00 in the evening to tell you that your administration is the subject in a criminal investigation, it's pretty fuckin important. And if you can somehow make the judgement that it isn't important, or that the preservation of evidence can wait twelve hours, you really shouldn't be Attorney General of the United States. You think?
Do you all recall the testimony of Oliver North, about standing in his office casually shoving reams of paper into the shredder while FBI agents looked through his desk because "nobody told me not to"? That's impressive. Them's balls. That's what you do with those twelve hours, Al, and it's a good bet that's what the Justice Department was thinkin' about too. You were probably concerned, understandably, that the President and his staff had rushed home to catch the West Wing at 9:00 and shouldn't be bothered. Even with an email. But justice, Mr. Gonzales, justice never sleeps -- especially under the hawklike watch of John Ashcroft.
Bummer on the whole John Roberts thing. Dude.
And just for the record, if you haven't been tracking recent advancements in today's shredding technology, check out some of these.
Attorney General and former White House Council Alberto Gonzales stated over the weekend that he waited twelve hours to inform "anyone" about a pending criminal investigation surrounding the leak of a covert CIA agent's identity...just before he stated that he "immediately informed Chief of Staff Andrew Card". Problems already. According to Mr. Gonzales, who was notably NOT nominated to the Supreme Court last week, the Justice Department (which he now heads) first called to inform his office of the investigation at 8pm, when most staffers had gone home. Like a good lawyer, he had a staffer call back to the Justice Department to ask them, for the record, if it would be "OK" to wait until morning to secure evidence. Again, I say -- Dude. When the Justice Department calls you at 8:00 in the evening to tell you that your administration is the subject in a criminal investigation, it's pretty fuckin important. And if you can somehow make the judgement that it isn't important, or that the preservation of evidence can wait twelve hours, you really shouldn't be Attorney General of the United States. You think?
Do you all recall the testimony of Oliver North, about standing in his office casually shoving reams of paper into the shredder while FBI agents looked through his desk because "nobody told me not to"? That's impressive. Them's balls. That's what you do with those twelve hours, Al, and it's a good bet that's what the Justice Department was thinkin' about too. You were probably concerned, understandably, that the President and his staff had rushed home to catch the West Wing at 9:00 and shouldn't be bothered. Even with an email. But justice, Mr. Gonzales, justice never sleeps -- especially under the hawklike watch of John Ashcroft.
Bummer on the whole John Roberts thing. Dude.
And just for the record, if you haven't been tracking recent advancements in today's shredding technology, check out some of these.
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