Gonzales blocked warrantless spying probe.
By on Mar 15th, 2007 at 12:00 pm
Gonzales blocked warrantless spying probe.
Murray Waas reports: “Shortly before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales advised President Bush last year on whether to shut down a Justice Department inquiry regarding the administration’s warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the investigation, according to government records and interviews.”
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Did I beat Patrick1?
March 15th, 2007 at 12:02 pmIt’s easy,
March 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pmit’s fun,
to beat,
Patrick1!
Patrick1 must be in deep troll sleep. lol
March 15th, 2007 at 12:06 pmPatrick in a fetal position, in a corner.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:07 pmGonzales is a hack. The worm is turning. The Bush Men should all just shut up.
I gotta go to the bathroom.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:11 pmWho is this Patrick1 fellow?
March 15th, 2007 at 12:13 pmYou’d better step down, Gonzo, before you are removed from your position. You’re a disgrace and your name will forever be linked with graft, corruption, lies and arrogance. Your dear religious mother must be so proud to have her finely educated son flushing his career down the toilet, with such little regard for morality and work ethic. Bye-bye…
March 15th, 2007 at 12:14 pm#6- Maybe he’s your alter-ego or boyfriend.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:16 pmIllegal NSA domestic surveillance is # 4 on the:
March 15th, 2007 at 12:20 pm“Top 10 Reasons Gonzales Must Go.”
The unsung hero in this whole sordid mess appears to be James Comey, who not only chose Fitz to investigate the Plame affair, but made sure that the investigation could go where the evidence led, unlike the investigation referenced in the article:
Comey certainly would have been interviewed at length during the OPR probe, according to sources close to the investigation. Earlier, he had earned the enmity of some in the White House, a former senior administration official recalled in an interview, when Comey named a special prosecutor to investigate who leaked the identity of CIA officer Valerie Plame to the media.
“Comey showed us that he was a guy who wouldn’t be kept on a leash,” said a former White House official, “in an administration that likes to keep everybody on a short leash.”
In March 2004, while then-Attorney General Ashcroft was in the hospital, Comey faced down the White House, asserting that he wouldn’t reauthorize the eavesdropping program unless it was brought within the law. Ultimately, a compromise was reached and the NSA eavesdropping program was reauthorized with the changes recommended by Goldsmith and Comey.
That Goldsmith, Baker, and Comey might be questioned as part of a Justice Department inquiry “must have raised the specter of a waking nightmare for the AG,” a former senior Justice Department official said in an interview.
Gonzales needs to resign. He nothing more than Bush’s Valiant Venus. A paid mouthpiece.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:21 pmStop the investigations. You can’t stop George W Bush. He’s a Republican warrior and war hero. He isn’t just above the Senate, he IS THE SENATE.
Subpeana all day long. He will continue to fight and win the War on Terror.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:25 pmWhat a shocker. The big question is whether or not Bush used his power to stop the probe in order to protect Mr. Torture that way Mr. Torture could keep OK’ing his spying programs.
What a joke. If true, what more does our Congress need to start impeachment proceedings? Bush would have been complicit in illegal spying and blocking the investigation of it.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:25 pmStop the investigations. You can’t stop George W Bush. He’s a Republican warrior and war hero. He isn’t just above the Senate, he IS THE SENATE.
Fitting for the Ides of March, heh?
March 15th, 2007 at 12:29 pmThese clowns worship the naked emperor.
That has to be a pseudo-firehead. NOBODY believes that jack, not even the most deluded kool-aid consuming wingnut.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:30 pmI sure wish I could have gotten a cushy appointment to a reserve flight unit instead of spending my year in Nam and getting my Bronze Star.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:31 pmWhere’s war hero Bush’s Bronze Star, firebreath?
I think it’s clear that James Comey needs to testify. He was part of the group of Justice lawyers who had trouble with re-defining torture, and left after making sure the Bush admin couldn’t mess with the Plame investigation. If he doesn’t testify, I hope the committee is at least consulting him on who to subpoena.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pmGood post, firehead, except for three errors:
1) ‘hero’ should read ‘criminal’
2) “He isn’t just above the Senate, he IS THE SENATE.” is just painfully stupid…even by your dismal standards.
3) “on” should read “of”.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:34 pmGonzales is gone in 5 – 4 – 3- 2 . . . . . .
How about a pool?
I say 3/22
March 15th, 2007 at 12:50 pmBush cultists everywhere scream and bray at the top of their little lungs: “Stop the investigations! Please, please stop! We’ll hold our breath until we turn blue! We won’t finish our breakfast! Stop! He’s the leader! Don’t you understand he’s the leader!”
Too funny.
March 15th, 2007 at 12:52 pm#11 – spoken like a true manson family member – heckuva job, squeaky!!
March 15th, 2007 at 12:54 pm[...] UPDATE: more here [...]
March 15th, 2007 at 1:14 pmMurray Waas amazes me. Since mirrors produce “mirror images”, does Murray Waas see Bob Woodward when he looks into the mirror?
March 15th, 2007 at 2:03 pm“Brownie, you’re doing a hell of a job…”
March 15th, 2007 at 3:59 pmFEMA Director Brown GIVEN THE BOOT
“Rummy, you’re doing a hell of a job…”
DUMBsfailed GIVEN THE BOOT
“AL, you’re doing a hell of a job…”
FAMOUS LAST WORDS AS SPOKEN BY CHIMPya TO THOSE ABOUT TO DEPART(GIVEN THE BOOT OUT THE DOOR)
[...] questions are being asked about warrantless spying on American citizens, and especially about his role in blocking an independent investigation of the wiretapping. Last week’s revelation of the FBI’s abuse of “National [...]
March 17th, 2007 at 2:53 pm