Alberto Gonzales is a dastardly liar, there is no doubt about that. His testimony before Congress over the last few months has been nothing but a metaphorical lugee (sp?) on the face of this nation and our Constitution. He doesn't care that he lies to Congress and the American people. But there are plenty of people willing to call him on his bullshit, like the current F.B.I. director Robert Mueller.
From The New York Times:
Mr. Mueller told the House Judiciary Committee that the Bush administration’s secret eavesdropping program was the main topic at an encounter in the hospital room of then-Attorney General John Ashcroft on March 10, 2004, contrary to what Mr. Gonzales told a Senate panel on Tuesday.
At the time, Mr. Gonzales was the White House counsel, and Mr. Ashcroft was recovering from gall bladder surgery. That March night, Mr. Gonzales went to the hospital room with Andrew H. Card Jr., then White House chief of staff.
In his testimony before the Senate panel on Tuesday, Mr. Gonzales said the subject in the hospital room was “intelligence activities” under debate in the administration, but not the secret eavesdropping program.
But Mr. Mueller contradicted that version of events today, several hours after four Senate Democrats called for the appointment of a special counsel to investigate whether Mr. Gonzales perjured himself before Congress.
If homicide detectives find bloody fingerprints at a murder scene and the suspect in question is denying it, chances are he is lying. Mr. Gonzales' prints are all over this scene, and if Congress' investigation needs more information than this, then something is wrong. The glove fits, so this criminal doesn't deserve an acquittal, he needs to get the full force of the law. It is time for his impeachment and conviction.
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