3-14-07 Atty Gen Gonzalez - pt3
Oh, gosh! Well, lordy me! Yes, well, he may be in charge but, ...but, well, y'know he really didn't KNOW that this was going on! Here's the quote... "As we can all imagine, in an organization of 110,000 people, I am not aware of every bit of information that passes through the halls of justice, nor am I aware of all decisions," he [Gonzalez] said at a Tuesday afternoon news conference.
The brilliance of pleading ignorance is such an amazing thing to see.
And the response? Well, it's clear that Chuck Schumer is really pissed. Here's his quote... "That is a sorry excuse," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said minutes later on the Senate floor. "Did the attorney general not know that eight U.S. attorneys were to be fired?" Schumer said. "If he didn't know, he shouldn't be attorney general, plain and simple."
Here's the story from CNN.
And we need to keep in mind here that this is merely the focus of the eight attorneys that were fired. We still have a whole 'nother scandal going on with the justice department's choice of who to "investigate" and when, over the course of the past few years.
The brilliance of pleading ignorance is such an amazing thing to see.
And the response? Well, it's clear that Chuck Schumer is really pissed. Here's his quote... "That is a sorry excuse," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York, said minutes later on the Senate floor. "Did the attorney general not know that eight U.S. attorneys were to be fired?" Schumer said. "If he didn't know, he shouldn't be attorney general, plain and simple."
Here's the story from CNN.
And we need to keep in mind here that this is merely the focus of the eight attorneys that were fired. We still have a whole 'nother scandal going on with the justice department's choice of who to "investigate" and when, over the course of the past few years.
posted by Jeff Barnard at 9:27 AM
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