Gonzales lauds 'tremendous job' by his Justice Department

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Source: CNN

(CNN) -- Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales spoke to CNN's Campbell Brown on Tuesday about his record at the Justice Department, including the firing of nine U.S. attorneys, allegedly for political reasons. Here are excerpts of the interview:
Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales says the new administration will make mistakes, too.

Alberto Gonzales: Well, I hope history will reflect the fact that during my tenure both at the White House and at the Department of Justice we did a tremendous job in protecting our country and also as attorney general we focused on protecting our kids from sexual predators, we focused on making our neighborhoods safe from guns and drugs. The level of prosecutions with respect to public corruption far exceeded what the previous administration did and so many people are focused on the little negatives that occurred.

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Gonzales: Campbell, Campbell, Campbell. I disagree with that. You said that nine U.S. attorneys were fired for partisan political reasons. That's not what the report said. Quite the opposite. The report clearly found that there were performance related reasons for the removal of most of these U.S. attorneys and with respect to the remainder, they didn't have enough information to draw definite conclusions. Now I clearly will acknowledge that there were political considerations taken with respect to the hiring decisions made by some of the staff within the Department of Justice. It's something that I condemn and it shouldn't have happened.

Brown: Well, the inspector general's report that was issued, of course, during the Bush administration, I mean, found that you had been, quote, "remarkably unengaged" in the process and you quote, "abdicated your responsibility to safeguard the integrity and independence of the Justice Department."

Gonzales: Well, again, I take issue with some of the things that were in that report. I've already testified, as I've indicated before and spoken to the American public about wishing that I had done things differently with respect to the removal of the U.S. attorneys. But I think you need to look at the overall record of the department during my tenure and the good things that we accomplished



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1. if by "tremendous job"

he means "egregious clusterfvck", then i agree.

[KamaAina]

2. He left out a word, or maybe he was misquoted

it should have said "tremendous hatchet job".

[katandmoon]

3. Like trying to nail Jello to the wall

[Bozita]

4. Has Gonzo found a full time job yet?

[MadMaddie]

5. Gonzo is not right in the head

Apparantly all * appointees suffer from "Grandios Balls" syndrome.

[keroro gunsou]

10. thems is layman's terms.

he's really got delusions of adequecy, competence, relevance, and morality. that and hair that trent lott would lust after.

[midnight]

6. Somehow I loose focus when he starts talking about child

predators. Didn't we locked up children and sodomized them while holding them in Guantánamo without charging them. Joshua Denbeaux, senior fellow and co-author of the report, stated, “A Supreme Court ruling that includes patently inaccurate information diminishes the Court’s credibility and tarnishes the international reputation of the highest court in the United States. Just as disturbing, DoD seems incapable of producing credible information about what has actually happened to former Guantánamo detainees. If the decision to release detainees had been made by the courts, rather than political appointees of DoD, America would be safer.”http://law.shu.edu/administration/public_relations/pres...

Children, he said, “suffer from torture, rape, (and) starvation” and do not know why they have been arrested. He added the children have been victims of “random” arrests “not based on any legal text.”http://www.opednews.com/articles/U-S--Allies-Torture-Ki...

Don't get me started about safety from drugs, and guns!

[UTUSN]

7. Bwah-ha-HAH!1 Is this a joke/PUNKED thread?!1 n/t

[av8rdave]

8. Tremendous job??? Maybe his memory IS as bad as he claimed

[sonias]

9. The guy is delusional

He lives in a world of his own making. I would not be surprised to hear one day that he's been committed to a mental institution.



Sonia

[Demeter]

12. Or Any Institution! Pleae! As Long As It Has Locks on the Doors and Bars on the Windows

And a nice sound=proof room, so nobody has to listen to him.

[sonias]

14. I hear ya

Somebody should round him up right now.


Sonia

[EFerrari]

11. "It's a sign all right. We're going out of business!" - Ghostbusters.

[Hubert Flottz]

13. "the inspector general's report that was issued, of course,

during the Bush administration," = Whitewash

[Solly Mack]

15. What a pathetic little nothing

who belongs in prison