Damn the truth for coming to the surface, if only people would take Alberto Gonzales' statements at face value, he wouldn't be in so much trouble. Unfortunately for the embattled Attorney General, things are not looking to good when it comes to his believability. Over the last few weeks he has changed his story numerous times and each new version gets contradicted by the statements or testimony of others who have had a part in this scandal.
The latest story from Alberto is that he was informed about the selection process of potential replacement Attorneys but had no knowledge of who or how the current U.S. Attorneys were to be fired. He still claims that he did nothing wrong but his constantly changing detail of events suggests otherwise. Now there is a new twist in the saga, an ex-Justice official alleges that Gonzales did indeed know about the firing process.
From The Washington Post:
The former Justice Department official who carried out the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year told Congress that several of the prosecutors had no performance problems and that a memo on the firings was distributed at a Nov. 27 meeting attended by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, a Democratic senator said yesterday.
The statements to House and Senate investigators by Michael A. Battle, former director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, represent another potential challenge to the credibility of Gonzales, who has said that he never saw any documents about the firings and that he had "lost confidence" in the prosecutors because of performance problems.
Gonzales is trying so hard to hold onto his job that he will stop at nothing to do so. One lie has turned into several and some of those were told under oath to Congress a couple weeks ago. Now on Thursday he will be back in front of the Judiciary Committee to explain his prior testimony and the Senators will scrutinize every word in order to catch him lying in the act. The line he must walk is a thin one, but under his enormous weight, he seems destined to fall.
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