Does Anyone Here Want to Defend the Attorney General?

[PokrLikeItsProse]

Reportedly, no Republican wants to go on the record in support of Alberto Gonzales. I wanted to know if anyone here is willing to defend his record.

[Nielsio]

Ban Gonzales.

[Bobbo539]

Its all politics. He has done nothing wrong, but the media/left is so hysterical with their screams of corruption that most republicans don't have the energy to deal with right now.

[renodoc]

what exactly did he do wrong?

[Bobbo539]

fired 8 people under him. something that bosses do from time to time.

but dailykos and angry left aroused the sheepdogs, as evidenced by the results of the poll above.

[andyfox]

The guy's a hired hack. Laws and the Constitution for him mean only what he says they mean to please his boss. He's authored a memo restricting access under FOIA. He believes Article III of the Geneva Convention is outdated and "quaint." He's been the leader in trying to keep Cheney's energy task force documents secret. He denies the Constitution has a right of habeus corpus. He's defended wireless wiretapping. His testimony in front of Congress has been one of constant lapses of memory interspersed with obfuscation. He believes in an all-powerful President.

He's a disgrace.

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The guy's a hired hack. Laws and the Constitution for him mean only what he says they mean to please his boss. He's authored a memo restricting access under FOIA. He believes Article III of the Geneva Convention is outdated and "quaint." He's been the leader in trying to keep Cheney's energy task force documents secret. He denies the Constitution has a right of habeus corpus. He's defended wireless wiretapping. His testimony in front of Congress has been one of constant lapses of memory interspersed with obfuscation. He believes in an all-powerful President.

He's a disgrace.

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which one fo those things is he being prosecuted for?

[niss]

Who said he's being prosecuted for anything?

[qwnu]

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The guy's a hired hack. Laws and the Constitution for him mean only what he says they mean to please his boss. He's authored a memo restricting access under FOIA. He believes Article III of the Geneva Convention is outdated and "quaint." He's been the leader in trying to keep Cheney's energy task force documents secret. He denies the Constitution has a right of habeus corpus. He's defended wireless wiretapping. His testimony in front of Congress has been one of constant lapses of memory interspersed with obfuscation. He believes in an all-powerful President.

He's a disgrace.

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which one fo those things is he being prosecuted for?

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Irrelevant to thread topic, unless you think the only way you can suck at your job is to commit a crime.

Do you really want to defend the proposition that being free of criminal charges is equivalent to having done nothing wrong? That criticism is unwarranted and irrelevant until a conviction has occurred?

What is relevant is that Chris Wallace, on Fox News Sunday, looked into the camera and said these astonishing words:

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We invited White House officials and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee to defend Attorney General Gonzales; we had no takers.

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Regardless of what you think about his job performance, he's clearly a liability to the administration at this point, and seems to be doing a heckuva job highlighting Bush's stubbornness.

[Leaky Eye]

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Its all politics. He has done nothing wrong, but the media/left is so hysterical with their screams of corruption that most republicans don't have the energy to deal with right now.

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I am pretty sure perjury is something wrong.