hummm.... For Alberto Gonzales, the gulps so far run like this:
I delegated the process and wasn't involved, but I know nothing improper occurred. [edit: to be sure, there will be an investigation ... !]
*gulp*
I don't recall much about who proposed or how the amendment to avoid Senate confirmation was advanced ... but Sampson testified he knew the deadlines and Specter accused him of bad-faith in apparently tailoring the firing timelines to the new clause.
*gulp*
A top ten attorney (Carol Lam) wasn't good enough for the Pleasure of the President...
*gulp*
"Once we said performance, we should have defined that." (*gulp*) Yet, the American people can have confidence in the US DOJ under Bush, when Sampson testified he didn't even keep notes ...?
*double gulp*
An attack on the integrity of how we brought cases is an attack on the career people who work on the cases [not the Bush appointees].
*misdirection gulp*
Performance evaluation includes how well appointees "manage and run the office", but we're here in front of the US Senate ourselves, admitting that we haven't even got the rudiments of a performance evaluation process right.
*gulp*
[to be cont.]
[By the way, is anyone else alarmed that the Administration of Justice seems to be so intertwined "policy priorities" of the President?]
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Pinocchio Faces His Own "Firing Squad"
