Gonzales' trouble with the truth gets worse
By Steve Benen Monday Jul 09, 2007 8:14pm
Just when it seemed Alberto Gonzales' troubles couldn't get any worse...
As he sought to renew the USA Patriot Act two years ago, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured lawmakers that the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers. “There has not been one verified case of civil liberties abuse,” Gonzales told senators on April 27, 2005.
Six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. It was one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee, according to internal FBI documents released under the Freedom of Information Act.
“This inconsistency is a disturbing addition to a growing list of misleading answers by the attorney general to questions from the Judiciary Committee, and it is unacceptable,” Leahy announced. “I intend to pursue this matter with the attorney general prior to his appearance before the Judiciary Committee later this month.”
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IMPEACH THAT LYING SACK OF SHIT!!!!
What are we waiting for, Nancy? We've got him on multiple counts of lying to congress, some obstruction of justice, then we can talk about the NSA wiretapping program.
Just the facts Alberto, just the facts....and put that fire out on yer butt.
Loyalty above all - he probably believed that it's not lying if it's your OPINION that the facts don't matter.
One more lying bush sack of sh*t.
"Gonzales’ trouble with the truth gets worse"
Not really. Gonzo never has any trouble with the truth. He simple avoids all contact with it. Truth and Gonzales live on different planets.
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My lack of surprise makes me feel really sad right now.
This is utterly preposterous. The reports in question detailed minor technical problems with the oversight of the NSL program and recommended methods for correcting these problems. If anything they showed an overabundance of concern about privacy issues. Typical leftist Bush/Gonzales Derangement Syndrome.
Bush said we were fighting terriers, not terror, Alberto. You don't need "Special Powers" for that.
Yes it's off topic, but did I hear correctly that Cheney's funding was cut off today?
Taking on bets Bush says he stays no matter what anyone thinks or says.
That really would be something to celebrate if Cheney's funding were cut off but wouldn't we be reading it right here? I hope you had an inside source and it's TRUE, AshWilliams.
As for Gonzalez, no suprise - he lied again. I think it is a requirement in the job description to serve in the Bush administration. Must be a good liar.
We need to get this false flag attempt out there
http://blogs.abcnews.com/theblotter/2007/07/al-qaeda-cell-i.html
einstein @ 12:
Yeah they've been trying this crap again to try to scare the sh*t out of the idiots in this country.
AshWilliam, I read that a Senate panel voted to cut off Cheney's funds, but whether that is effective in itself I don't know. I doubt it. I also read that we, the country, spend $5 million a year on Cheney's health.
If we pull out of Iraq now, Halliburton will be demanding federal bail out money and I will be inclined to give it to them.
“This inconsistency is a disturbing addition to a growing list of misleading answers by the attorney general to questions from the Judiciary Committee, and it is unacceptable,”
What's this "inconsistency"? The guy's a liar. Leahy needs to raise his game............. as do his fellow Dems..............
It was almost a whole week after he received the memo, he clearly just couldn't recall.
Gonzales' sin isnt that he's a liar or corrupt or a hack. Its that he's an incompetent and second rate corrupt lying hack. I have long grown accustomed to cheap lying sacks in high office but you have to at least try to appear otherwise. He's just too brazen.
jefe gonzo: "Truth? we don't need no stinking truth! we're republicans! we're in charge!"
Well, golly, I sure hope someone does something about this. But they won't.
L.A. Confidential @ 13:
You know, the good thing is that other than a few cowboys, cowards and whackadoos, the comments on that page reflect a great deal of disdain for the real motives behind the story. That can be seen as encouraging.
Stop futzing around with this bozo and either impeach or cut off funding to the DOJ. This guy needs to go.
Cheney:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070710/ap_on_go_co/democrats_cheney
Ali @ 11:
I read it about an hour ago. Has since disappeared from Yahoo and Google but will no doubt appear again.
This would be Gonzales' fourth episode of lying to Congress under oath. His previous lies:
1. Promised not to use interim US attorney hiring authority and get confirmation for all US attorneys
2. Said there was no serious disagreement about NSA domestic surveillance program
3. Said he would never make a change in a US attorney position for "political reasons"
For the details, see:
"Gonzales Lies to Congress. Again."
Will someone PLEASE give Gonzales a BJ so he can be impeached.
Can we PLEASE just get this toad out of office already?
This is such an embarrassment for our nation. The chief law enforcement officer of this country is a felon.
As much as I enjoy the implosion of this administration, I am tired of waiting for my party to start putting the screws to these assholes. IMPEACH, CONVICT, IMPRISON.
The sad truth is (no, I am not excusing this particular slime ball) if we we knew what every major government player was actually doing, we'd see things just like this and worse in nearly every single case. Every time we focus our attention on one of these "bad apple" figures, the power elite take full advantage and try to get us to focus only on the individual of the moment, and forget the fact that entire system is broken and corrupt to the core. As long as the system stands as is, we will continually create individuals like this, and reward them generously, unless they are caught.
You know the WH is fucked up when all of the spook agencies (FBI, CIA, NSA, etc.) admit to wrongdoings such as spying on citizens and cooking up intelligence.
Alberto Gonzales lied? Well you can just knock me over with a feather!
The lies are so frequent that the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
It's is catching up with them.
I think we oughtta get us one o' them oppizishin' parties! Whaddaya think?
IMPEACH gonzo NOW. And take cheney and bush with him. What is the Congress waiting for? How long are these Repuke Party senators and congresspeople going to support the asshole bush? The longer this goes on, the more damage will be done to the country and to the Repuke Party.
Why do they hate the country??? What has the cheney administration promised them, once the overt dictatorship is finally enacted?
What do they need, blowjobs all 'round?
nabalzbffr @ 7:
Ha Ha Ha!. How sweet it is. Now you White Water and Swift Boating Creeps are howling about getting a wee taste of your own medicine. Typical Christo Fascist Reich Wing Hypocrisy. Be sure to join your Senator David Vetter at his next Fishing Rodeo. Fish Nets will be provided, all you will be expected to do is furnish your own FLY Pole, and a Stiff Entrance Fee.
seamus @ 5:
Exactly, his trouble is not with the truth, it's with all of his lies.
Gonzalez needs to provide written assurances to Congress under penalty of perjury that he has reviewed his Atty Standars of conductd; and has substantially complied with the requirements; and is not using his legal services to advance any illegal agenda or obstruct Congress in re criminal activity.
it is time for the democratic leadership to state where they stand,
with ordinary americans or with thier corrupt cronies in both houses of both parties
THIS? coming from a man who told congress he cannot remember weather or not, his grandparents came to the USA legal?
oh spare me the bullshit there Gonzales!
your a goose, getting ready to be stuffed and cooked within side the white house ovens.
Hope dick can eat your gizzard!!!!
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there i feel better now!!
What will it take to remove these people? The way I see it, the majority of congress and senate are accessories after the fact by not acting on the oath they've taken. They should also be removed immediately! We need to seriously take this country back from these traitors before it's too late.
Now Chertoff has a "gut feeling" we'll be attacked during the summer. Is he phsycic or does he know something we don't know? Wake up fellow citizens, our enemies are in this government! They may call themselves Republican or Democrat but they are globalists.
Anyone who has spent a reasonable amount of time researching 9/11 knows something is wrong with the official story. The evidence, which is considerable, points to this criminal administration. Just take a look at their track record. If thier agenda is not that of a fascist dictatorship then what is it? Everything they say is double-speak and lies.
Hera a short list of crimes and acts which are against American principles of freedom and justice.
Torture, Rendition, Habeus Corpus, Labor camps in the U.S., Libby Commutation, Illegal wiretapping, war crimes and conpsiracy to commit war crimes, Patriot Act, Military Commisions Act, Warner Defense bill (end of Posse Commitatus), secret detention and execution, Huricane Katrina, Election fraud, voter fraud, caging lists, politicizing the office of attorney general, political retribution, CIA identity leak, illegal propaganda against the U.S. (media bribes), signing statements, North American Union, disregard of Constitutional checks and balances, lying to the American people over and over and over again, even in the face of facts that prove otherwise. They are frauds and I do not consider them Americans. Feel to add your list of high crimes if I left any out.
Let's stand up together and forget this left/ right paridigm and declare our independence from this criminal administration those in both parties who are complicit. Former congresswomen Cythia McKinney did it at the March 17, 2007 peace rally.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5G3eq-I7CzM
Ron Paul for President! Our last true hope for liberty and the Constitution!
Why is this man still in office?
On the day before he was expected to testify before Congress, J. Edgar Hoover would have his field offices pull every bug and tap except for a few. Then, when asked, he would truthfully testify there were only 10 or 12 wiretaps in place. The next day, the hundreds that were pulled were put back on line.
Gonzales said "there has not been one verified case..." He was not lying. There were thousands of verified cases. No perjury here!
Like my mom used to say 'The worst part about lying is keeping them straight'.
Gonzo only cares about instant gratification. He'll lie today not caring about next month's consequences. Does Bush have any friends that aren't sociopaths?
"PRIOR to his appearance before the Judiciary Committee" Yeah Pat what kinda private deal are you thinking of now to help protect the status quo from us dirty f***ing hippies?
It might have just been file footage I saw, but was the FBI director sitting there with the AG when he made these assertions?
This most Despicable Disgrace to the justice dept. in the history of America.
Impeachment is required.
“This inconsistency is a disturbing addition to a growing list of misleading answers by the attorney general to questions from the Judiciary Committee, and it is unacceptable,”
Misleading my ass! He lied to Congress, period. I don't care whether he was under oath or not. They should haul his ass in front of a congressional committee in an orange jumpsuit and wearing shackles. Make it clear to him that anything he says can be used against him and that lying will only get him more jail time.
The United State's chief law enforcement officer is an unabashed liar who worships a man-child with a messiah complex. We are all doomed.
i smell another perjury indictment... yeehaw!... gonzo's gonna take scooter's place under the axe... any bets on how long b4 bush intervenes?... with luck, he'll break and finally spill all the beans b4 that happens...
Ok, let's see. They'll ask
Ok Let's see. They'll ask Gonzo about this and he'll say "I don't recall." And then, nothing will happen. It happens over and over. We've had so many hearings, lies and drivel. Then the Democrats express their outrage and then they do....nothing.
Here's a suggestion: when you swear him in, remind him that it takes precedence over any oath he took to Skull and Bones, or whatever. They should do that when federal officials swear to 'uphold and defend the Constitution against all enemies foreign and domestic", because they're just not taking it seriously enough.
Gonzales is going to lie because that is a job requirement of the Bush administration. As was the case with Libby, the Liar-in-Chief will support his subordinate liars, to prevent a surge of truth telling.
Lets not loose site of the biggest lie, namely, that Iraq was a national security threat, which has led to the deaths of 3600 troops and perhaps 600,000 Iraqis. The failure of the Congress to impeach on this lie points out that the Congress is about as useless as the tits on a bull.
excuse me, this guy has lied his ass off to Congress, repeatedly. What price has he paid? NONE. When are they going to do something about this weasel?
The guy is holding out for a promotion. Condi lied repeatedly about a memo that was right in front of her, and she got to be secretary of state. (This isn't polemics, there is no way to reconcile her statements about the presidential daily briefing and the actual contents which she didn't expect to be revealed.)
Now guess what? URGENT TERROR ALERT ALL HANDS ON DECK AL QUEDA ABOUT TO ATTACK RUN AWAY RUN AWAY! (http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN1037366420070711)
Look at that picture of Gonzo - he looks like he's getting all worked up over a pair of really big jugs - not defending himself over civil liberties violations he claims never occurred.
Well - it could hardly get him in worse trouble.
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We need to make a mental note to put this bastard behind bars as soon as he gets out of office, along with most of these sick distorted fools, including Sir. Bush
The next President is going to be a very busy person is all I can say
It's not Gonazles' problems that are getting worse--it's ours. Gonzales is our problem. Hell, the whole criminal enterprise is our problem. And what is our chickenshit Congress doing about it? Having another hearing! Yeah! That'll solve the problem. (shakes head disspiritedly).
Gonzo has turned the DOJ into a joke. He's lied under oath repeatedly. What does it take to get rid of these people?
So, he knowingly lied to Congress? Impeah his ass.
[...] http://www.crooksandliars.com/2007/07/10/gonzales-trouble-with-the-truth... [...]
Now now, Alberto. The NEXT time you lie to Congress we might have to do something about it. We're totally serious!
Cythraul @ 28:
Preach on! This is just more of the same from a whole class of people, regardless of political affiliation, that know once you are an elected or an appointed official you can do whatever you want until you get caught. This is proven time and time again. Of course the current group of criminals have made it a bigger spectacle than they would have liked, which is actually a blessing in disguise. The more these people are exposed for the criminals that they are the more regular citizens will realize that we are being raped politically and hopefully work to throw most if not all of the elected officials at the federal level, as a start.
All the comments are right on. But we have been talking about this guy far too long, the commentators who call for impeachment have it right. Remember, if articles of impeachment or, even an impeachment inquiry is under way, there is no executive privilege--everything becomes available.
What's Gonzo doing in that picture, describing how he likes to grab chainey's ass?
He's Dumbya's favorite liar and criminal.
Imeach and remove him from office. Should have already been done.
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