Hope for Justice?
Maybe there is hope, but I suppose we will have to wait until this afternoon to find out.
According to The Hill, “The Senate Judiciary Committee’s ranking Republican, Arlen Specter (Pa.), emerged from a crucial Monday briefing and gave the Bush administration 18 hours to resolve the controversy over apparent contradictions in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s congressional testimony.”
We know that Gonzales is trying to wriggle out from under his mountain of lies by saying his testimony in February 2006 that there had been no “serious disagreement” about the NSA wiretapping program was true because the disagreement testified to by others in the administration referred to data mining and not the secret eavesdropping program.
“Given the difficulty of discussing classified matters in public, I think it is preferable to have a letter addressing that question [of Gonzales’ veracity] from the administration … by noon tomorrow [Tuesday], which will be made available to the news media,” Specter wrote in the statement. “The administration has committed to producing such a letter.”
The speculation is that Gonzales will be forced to resign.
But wait, Vice President Cheney loves the guy.
According to a story today in the Washington Post, Gonzales “has testified truthfully” before Congress and has performed well as head of the Justice Department.
“I’m a big fan of Al’s,” Cheney said in the radio interview. “. . . I think Al has done a good job under difficult circumstances. The debate between he and the Senate is something they’re going to have to resolve. But I think he has testified truthfully.”
Of course we all know Cheney’s version of “the truth” is, and it sure doesn’t reflect reality in any way. The only good news is that when Cheney stepped forward to defend former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, Rumsfeld was fired a week later.
Leave a Reply