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...mass destruction, the promises we'd be greeted as liberators, Jessica Lynch, torture, the disintegration of Afghanistan. Also: Enron, WorldCom, Bear Stearns, AIG, Fannie and Freddie, GM, Chrysler, Social Security privatization, the $700 billion bailout. Also: Brownie, John Ashcroft covering up that bare-breasted statue at the Justice Department, Alberto Gonzales politicizing the Justice Department, Harriet Miers, the oil lobbyist who edited those global warming reports. Also: Jack Abramoff, Duke Cunningham, Bob Ney, Tom DeLay, Ted Stevens. Also: the Vice President shot a guy, and the President almost choked to death on a pretzel. (See the screwups of Campaign...
From the outset, critics of the memo viewed the legal thinking behind it as flawed. Then Navy general counsel Alberto Mora identified it as a "dangerous document" that "spots some of the legal trees, but misses the constitutional forest. Because it identifies no boundaries to action - more, it alleges there are none - it is virtually useless as guidance." What particularly troubled Mora and other critics of the memo was that, as a document from the Office of Legal Counsel, its opinions were binding as the Administration's interpretation...
...tried to present himself as, well, a maverick. In the Senate, he has gone out of his way to stake out some independent ground-opposing reauthorization of the Patriot Act, supporting land conservation issues, and being the first Republican Senator to call for the resignation of former attorney general Alberto Gonzales. During the last televised debate in the Senate race, both candidates were asked to identify issues on which they took stands that were politically unpopular. Shaheen paused uncomfortably for a few moments before ultimately arguing that she doesn't pay attention to polls. In response, Sununu eagerly noted that...
...campaign-trail hogwash, Hoss. Hate to burst your bubble. Maybe you haven’t noticed, but we’ve never really been the go-to guys for compassion—or prudence, or honesty, or the human touch. Ours is the big tent of Joe Lieberman and Alberto Gonzales. You’re right, though; Gramps isn’t pulling it off. No use being a wolf in a temperamental and frustrated old man’s clothing. Horseshit doesn’t work without a healthy dose of charm...
Gonzales, Alberto •report concludes that responsibility as Attorney General was abdicated...