Alberto Gonzales Can’t Name A Mistake He’s Made
Alberto Gonzales Can’t Name A Mistake He’s Made
Today on CNN’s Situation Room, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked if he could think of a single mistake he’s made during his service to President Bush during the last six years. He couldn’t do it.
Gonzales told Wolf Blitzer, “I think that you and I would — I’d have to spend some time thinking about that.” He added, “Obviously I’ve made some recommendations to my client. Some of those recommendations have not been supported in the courts. In hindsight, you sometimes wonder, well, perhaps, perhaps the recommendation should have been something different.” Watch it:
Full transcript:
BLITZER: Looking back on the decisions that you’ve made, at the White House, now at the Justice Department, anything jump to mind? Anything that you deeply regret, a decision that you made?
GONZALES: Oh, I think that you and I would — I’d have to spend some time thinking about that. Obviously I’m not going to say that I am perfect and that I’ve been perfect in doing my job. Obviously I’ve made some recommendations to my client. Some of those recommendations have not been supported in the courts. In hindsight, you sometimes wonder, well, perhaps, perhaps the recommendation should have been something different.
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November 30th, 2006 at 6:32 pmTorture
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Amen, Spudge!
November 30th, 2006 at 6:36 pmSpudgeBoy is wise.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:37 pmLike father, like son. He and his boss are cut from the same cloth.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:44 pmIs Attorney General Gonzales referring George W. Bush when he says “my client?”
The Attorney General is supposed to represent the United States — not George W. Bush.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:44 pmCudos to SB. You nailed it.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:45 pmGood Lord, please tell me Gonzales didn’t mean that “my client” is the President, as the President is NOT the Attorney General’s client, now or ever
November 30th, 2006 at 6:46 pmCan’t name a mistake? Hell, I can’t name anything he’s gotten right!
November 30th, 2006 at 6:47 pmI don’t think AG knows the law.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:49 pmHi Zooey (#5)
You beat me to it.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:52 pmSKdeA: There is a time-honored tradition in this cabal both of ignoring the letter of the law and of subverting its sense: recall Meese’s “They wouldn’t have been arrested if they weren’t guilty.” (paraphrased)
November 30th, 2006 at 6:53 pmThis reminds me strikingly of Bush’s answer to the same question.
November 30th, 2006 at 6:55 pmIncurious dolts.
It’s amazing! Nobody in the Bush administration ever made a mistake! They’re geniuses!
November 30th, 2006 at 7:01 pm#10 - Hi Rebel. What part of CA are you in?
November 30th, 2006 at 7:03 pmWe once had an attorney general named Bobby Kennedy. Now, we have this evil idiot.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:03 pmI would have been most pleased if he answered truthfully,
November 30th, 2006 at 7:03 pm“oh, ….. making up shit to convince idiot Americans that anything master W wants is actually legal, cause, he’s like, the president.
#5 Zooey
November 30th, 2006 at 7:05 pmRight on!!
These guys have their priorities screwed up.
They obviously spend far too much time in their efforts to keep one another out of jail that they forget what their role in government really is.
Marie,
I’m certain Wolf Blitzer followed up with a question about that.
*cough* hack *cough*
November 30th, 2006 at 7:07 pmWe need to send this incompetent fool back home to again judge chili cook-offs. It’s obvious he doesn’t know anything about the rule of law. The Geneva Conventions are quaint?
November 30th, 2006 at 7:16 pm#15 Zooey
I live an work in LA, but somehow end up in SF either on business or to hang out with my eclectic friends with SF Values.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:25 pm#25 - Rebel,
Cool. SF values. :)
I was born in the CA desert, and I used to live across the Bay in Alameda, too many years ago.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:31 pmj,
Those poor mini-aphids….
November 30th, 2006 at 7:39 pmThis guy is a certified dickhead! I am embarrassed for him every time he appears and when he is being questioned, he sounds like he’s got an IQ of about 72! Good grief….and this is our illustrious Attorney General. He’s a sham - where did he buy his JD degree anyway? Mail order? What a monkey brain this guy is.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:42 pm#27
SF Values are cool. Shame tsome of it didn’t rub off on this idiot AG
November 30th, 2006 at 7:42 pmInfallible, is he? Next thing you know, he’ll be rrunning for POTUS…
November 30th, 2006 at 7:43 pmI guess Alberto dipdong will be in competition for “godship” now with Dumbya?? They both claim infallibility….so I guess they’re both considering themselves for sainthood??
November 30th, 2006 at 7:45 pmHere’s one Gonzo - I regret that you turned the United States of America into a state that openly condones TORTURE.
November 30th, 2006 at 7:47 pmEveryone MUST read this
November 30th, 2006 at 8:01 pmAND PASS IT ON.
In watching the video, it seems Alberto admitted some of his recommendations were not endorsed by the courts. Is this an admission of mistakes?
Wolf fully caught him off gaurd, Alberto told him he had to think about it. I sure there wasn’t enough time for Alberto to discuss his failures.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:06 pmA mistake Alberto Gonzales has made?
How about being born!
November 30th, 2006 at 8:27 pmsomething i’ve always wanted to point out, and this is the perfect time for it…
even when dubya was asked about mistakes, and many surmised that he couldn’t think of any, that was never my opinion… with gonzo also…
it isn’t that they cannot think of any mistakes - they know there are plenty - but i think they are trying to think of something to say, some way to parse some kind of comment, and not outright lie… maybe try to come up with something witty or clever…
in dubya’s case, maybe his handlers on the other end of the earpiece were caught off guard and couldn’t come up with something fast enough…
November 30th, 2006 at 8:29 pmjust a hunch… i never thought he couldn’t think of a mistake, just couldn’t think of some way to change the subject…
Alberto is taking lessons from his pal Bush? Bush couldn’t think of any mistakes he ever made, when he was asked, too.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:31 pmI can think of one mistake his parents made…
November 30th, 2006 at 8:46 pmSquare blocks in square holes, what else would you expect? IQ and sharp tools are not a prerequisite to be loyal member in the House of Hubris so welcome to the scompany of scumbags. Alberto, the little latino, sawed-off fireplug, would lock up his neighbors and family if God Bush so wished. If these guys think, it is so.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:49 pm42:Wayne, Some criminals do not view ther crimes as mistakes. Not until after they are punished, anyway.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:57 pm#22
“We need to send this incompetent fool back home to again judge chili cook-offs. It’s obvious he doesn’t know anything about the rule of law. The Geneva Conventions are quaint?
Comment by QUALAR”
He was a friggin Real Estate Lawyer in Texas before becoming king dumshit’s personal lawyer, and then AG (unfriggin beleiveable.)
http://www.dkosopedia.com/wiki/Alberto_R._Gonzales
From http://www.whitehouse.gov/government/gonzales-bio.html
“Prior to serving at the Department of Justice, he was commissioned as White House Counsel to President George W. Bush in January of 2001. Prior to serving in the White House, he served as a Justice of the Supreme Court of Texas. Before his appointment to the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, he served as Texas’ 100th Secretary of State from December 2, 1997 to January 10, 1999. Among his many duties as Secretary of State, Gonzales was a senior advisor to then Governor Bush, chief elections officer, and the Governor’s lead liaison on Mexico and border issues.
Prior to his appointment as Secretary of State, Gonzales was the General Counsel to Governor Bush for three years. Before joining the Governor’s staff, he was a partner with the law firm of Vinson & Elkins L.L.P. in Houston, Texas. He joined the firm in June 1982. While in private practice, Gonzales also taught law as an adjunct professor at the University of Houston Law Center.”
SO a meteoric rise up the d*ck sucking chain of command in Tejas, and viola AG of the US. Unfriggin beleiveable.
November 30th, 2006 at 8:58 pmOh Bertie, when will you realize that your biggest mistake was keeping company with an idiot like Bush?
November 30th, 2006 at 9:04 pmHey Al……’We the People’ are your client!’….now first UNDO all you mega mistakes,then, resign,and hang your head in shame.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:16 pmIs it my imagination, or are all of these doofus’ starting to look guilty? He looks guilty to me. He’s about to get busted, and the shuck and jive routine has started.
I can’t wait to see the stories unravel.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:21 pmI’ve never made a mistake either, I thought real hard and couldn’t come up with a single thing.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:34 pmI thought I made a mistake once, but it turned out I was right.
November 30th, 2006 at 9:54 pmNope, no mistakes.
Alfredo G is the AG and he has as much knowledge of the law as I do about the topography of the innermost two planets circling a minor star on the opposite side of the Milky Way galaxy. In three words: ” He’s a fool”.
November 30th, 2006 at 10:50 pm#58 - ren,
November 30th, 2006 at 10:57 pmI tend to use extremes.
did you hear Gore Vidal basically out Gonzales tongight on david bender’s show/
November 30th, 2006 at 11:56 pmhe referred to Gonzales as “Capote-esque”!
HAHAHAHAHAHA
His “client”? The Attorney General is supposed ot work for the People pf the United States, he is not the President’s personal lawyer.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:02 amthere is no doubt that the Democrats–particularly the leftists who so utterly control that party today–hate America.
Dick Van Dyke
Poor little troll.
What we hate are cowards like you, that talk tough, and then run like a lice-infested rat when challenged.
There is no doubt that Democrats hate America. There is no other possible explanation for their attempts to portray unpleasant temperatures in an interrogation cell in Cuba or a couple of pairs of panties on the heads of those sworn to murder all infidels as the equivalent of the regimes of Pol Pot and Adolph Hitler.
Tell you what Rambo; meet me in LA, and I’ll do to you what is routinely done to the detainees. We’ll tape it, put it on Youtube, and you can tell the audience how it feels to lie in your own feces with a glow-stick up your butt. I’ll split the t-shirt consession with you. Whatta ya’ say, toughguy?
December 1st, 2006 at 4:08 amthis guy should NOT have a license to practice law–
December 1st, 2006 at 6:18 amhe should be on a terrorist watch list. Let’s hope that his crimes HAUNT him someday (soon), courtesy our Democracy.
I. hate. this. man. I cannot describe my disgust while watching his confirmation hearings. Ted Kennedy was the only one asking him about his underhanded, nasty, illegal crap (like the torture memo calling the Geneva Conventions “quaint”), while the Republicans spent the entire time kissing his ass. I was screaming at the tv. He deserves to be in jail for the repercussions of his illegal actions.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:56 amslocum/willywart:
December 1st, 2006 at 8:07 amwow, talk about misinformed–brainwashed is more like it. You are one or the REAL Kool-Aid drinkers. Sounds like not only do you have the warts on the willy, but some must have made it into the brain, too.
You can have those removed by a urologist, if I’m not mistaken.
great cut and paste from a dated article, slocum!
December 1st, 2006 at 8:15 amCan’t even “debate” on your own, so you must have others think for you!
I really do feel sorry for you, MoonbatPatrol!
COWARD
Wow, so Washington and Lincoln really DID conduct warrantless wiretaps!
December 1st, 2006 at 9:29 amI can only pray that Gonzales appears at the Hague, along with Bush, Cheney and numerous others in that administration in the process of being tried and convicted of war crimes. We can’t afford two more years (plus) with these guys in power.
December 1st, 2006 at 10:51 amHe can’t name a mistake he’s made… how very American of him.
December 1st, 2006 at 11:15 amthis guy is dangerous.
December 1st, 2006 at 12:57 pmokay. i’m basically a democrat, and usually like the things posted on here, but COME ON. he listed off a bunch of things that he hadn’t done right. okay, nothing very specific, but he admitted that he makes mistakes and that he and his judgement are not perfect. good lord, people. i hate alberto gonzales as much as a lot of you, i’m sure, but let’s at least keep a pretense of being fair.
December 1st, 2006 at 7:28 pmYou can attribute his response to a convict that just got released from prison, on his first job interview, being asked “what value would you add to our company?”
December 1st, 2006 at 7:39 pmgonzales is a lying piece of crap, but hey, thats how you succeed in the bush regime.
December 1st, 2006 at 8:37 pmOne thing is for sure - either he was born a fibber or soon after taking office he became a fibber.
December 1st, 2006 at 8:47 pmhttp://www.tratfor.com
Bush surrounds himself with minorities like Condi Rice and Gonzalez so he can feel smarter.
December 1st, 2006 at 8:55 pm[…] Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked on CNN’s The Situation Room yesterday if he could name any mistake whatsoever which he’d made while serving President Bush. He mumbled something vague about recommendations but couldn’t name a single actual mistake he’d made. You can watch the video here. […]
December 2nd, 2006 at 3:48 pm[…] Today on CNN ’s Situation Room, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was asked if he could think of a single mistake he’s made during his service to President Bush during the last six years. He couldn’t do it. Gonzales told Wolf Blitzer, “I think that you and I would — I’d have to spend some time thinking about that.”read more | digg story […]
December 4th, 2006 at 12:15 pm