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For Gonzales, More Than His Job is on The Line
From ABC News:
Ignoring calls for his ouster over the firing of several U.S. attorneys, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is set to testify before Congress tomorrow. It's a move experts say could rescue his political career, or cost him his job -- even send him to jail."It's suicidal," said Stanley Brand, one of the top ethics defense lawyers in Washington, D.C. Given the conflicting stories from Gonzales, his aides and top Justice Department officials about why eight U.S. attorneys were fired, and to what extent Gonzales was involved in the process, the attorney general puts himself in criminal jeopardy by testifying under oath, Brand said....
"I've seen it before. People get indicted for false statements and perjury and obstruction of justice," Brand told ABC News. Brand recently represented ex-Interior Department official Stephen Griles, who pleaded guilty to lying to Congress in connection with the Jack Abramoff scandal.
What's so dangerous about simply telling the truth? Isn't it true that, like the old adage, the truth shall set you free?
"Not in my world," Brand retorted.
Comments (16)
Mike Conwell wrote on April 16, 2007 5:16 PM:Christ! Just now learned of the shooting at VTech. Look for the corruption of the DOJ to become a back-burner story for most of the nation. And then a whole bunch of BS about gun rights, etc.
Meanwhile, we need to keep Congress focused on fixing these now endemic problems in the Executive Branch.
M Smythe wrote on April 16, 2007 5:26 PM:Gonzales quoted today, "I do acknowledge however that at times I have been less than precise with my words when discussing the resignations."
How many ways can you say "I lied"?
Alfred Kelgarries wrote on April 16, 2007 7:51 PM:ABC News has the story that a doc dump email has provided a smoking gun on Gonzales!
No Thirty...
Sword of Truth wrote on April 16, 2007 7:57 PM:"It's suicidal," said Stanley Brand.
Well, its actually called "Justice".
What a TURD!!!
John West wrote on April 16, 2007 11:25 PM:"Not in my world," Brand retorted.
That would apparently be the world of criminals.
NCBlueneck wrote on April 17, 2007 10:20 AM:Poor "Torture Boy" might go to jail? Like Mr. T likes to say, "Pity the fool!" The real shame is innocent people going to jail for political reasons. This article http://www.madison.com/wsj/mad/top/index.php?ntid=128161&ntpid=1 shows the real cost to real people of having "loyal Bushies" in the Justice Dept. It's just sad how far we have sunk under the Banana Republicans.
Code word: poison
Anthony wrote on April 19, 2007 11:14 AM:I wonder if this question will get asked? Does anyone know why these Attorney Generals were fired? If the Attoney General doesn't know and the Chief of staff doen't know, and the Asst Attorney Generals don't know, then who does? And what kind of operation are they running at DOJ if know one there knows and the records can be located or don't exist? Maybe they were looking in the wrong building?
No one seems to know why, No one seems to have kept the records you would expect to be kept in regards to this type of action.
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