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Gonzo: I Was Not The Decider on Prosecutor Purge

By Big Tent Democrat, Section Law Related
Posted on Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 02:12:01 AM EST
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' Sunday WaPo piece just confirms that he should never have been nominated, confirmed or allowed to remain as the nation's chief law enforcement. Forget his mendacity. Forget his outrageous opinions. Consider only his gross incompetence. What kind of Attorney General would defend his running of the Justice Departmenr saying this:

During those conversations, to my knowledge, I did not make decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign.

The man running the Justice Department did not decide who would or would not be fired is his defense.

That would be a firing offense imo even if the firings were perfectly kosher. How could that be acceptable?

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    Gonzo: I Was Not The Decider on Prosecutor Purge | 5 comments (5 topical)

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    Consensus (5.00 / 4) (#1)
    by Carolyn in Baltimore on Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 08:45:11 AM EST
    Daniel Metcalfe, retired recently from DoJ, details the consensus procedure by which the WH gets major influence and no one person takes responsibility for a decision because they made it all together.
    So you have Sampson and Goodling et al running around conferring and negotiating with the WH (Rove and Harriet), Gonzales, etc. and they make biog decisions yet the paper trail is skimpy and no one person can claim to be the decider.

    It's already been decided by the Decider (5.00 / 2) (#4)
    by Freewill on Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 12:08:16 PM EST
    "...and no one person can claim to be the decider."

    It's funny watching this Administration pass the "decider" hot potato.


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    What is his job? (5.00 / 3) (#2)
    by scarshapedstar on Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 10:26:34 AM EST
    Every time a Bushie screws up, we learn that they make no decisions and receive no information about what their underlings are doing.

    What do they pay them for, exactly?

    Whatever happened to the need to take (5.00 / 3) (#3)
    by Molly Bloom on Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 10:29:33 AM EST
    personal responsibility for our actions that we use to hear about so often from conservatives? IOKIYAR?

    This DoJ tale of woe is disturbing . . . (none / 0) (#5)
    by walt on Sun Apr 15, 2007 at 04:07:07 PM EST
    . . . because it establishes that all of the most unbelievable "hideous-ities" that we sane folks suspected take place in bizzaro Bu$h xliii's world acually occur, regularly, as if the ideas of snafu & fubar are the constant reality coming from the Oval Office into the entire bureaucracy.

    Incomprehensible.

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