Schumer on Ashcroft (Gonzales at Judiciary Committee hearing)

[aaronbees]

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Ludicrous. How many ways can Gonzales find to not answer the question?

[Snarkoleptic]

1. Stonewalling is all they seem to know...sad state of affairs.

[liberal N proud]

2. Who in the hell does he have to take the question back to see if he can answer?

He is the fucking attorney general for god sake, If he doesn't know if he can answer a question about who told him to do it, then he is incompetent and in contempt and needs to have his ass thrown in fucking jail and sit there and rot until he does answer the fucking question.

GET SOME BALLS CONGRESS AND FIRE THIS TRAITOR! MY GOD!!!!

[DS1]

3. He obviously needs the answers tortured out of him

in fact, I'd pay to see that

[NewJeffCT]

6. I know - let's see how quaint he feels the Geneva Conventions are

after a few minutes of waterboarding?

[LSK]

4. K&R

[PDJane]

5. Goddess on a cracker, people.............

How obvious does it have to get? If he has to go back to the White House and ask for permission, it's time to impeach, indicte and imprison!!!

[Mind_your_head]

7. You've said the thing that NOBODY else wants to say....

"Gonzales has to go back to the White House and ask for permission."

[autorank]

8. This was an impeachment moment. See below. K*R

Here you go. If Bush sent him, then Bush committed an impeachable crime, period. The actions were illegal. Going to Ashcroft as the article below points out, was illegal. Ashcroft was not the AG. Getting Ashcroft to sign was illegal. Acting on that signature was illegal.

Saying Bush sent him makes it a criminal conspiracy. Damn!

Seeking approval of an illegal law then implementing the illegal law.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0705/S00343.htm

Before the hospital drama, it was clear that the White House knew that Comey wouldn’t sign off on the reauthorization of the surveillance law. The willingness to go around Comey, the official Acting Attorney General, and seek Ashcroft’s approval is just the opening act of this incident.

The approval was not obtained. Yet as Comey pointed out, “The program was reauthorized without us and without a signature from the Department of Justice attesting as to its legality.”

There are at least two major problems facing the participants in this affair.

First, the White House attempted to obtain approval for a program that they knew the acting Attorney General would not approve. Second, they sought this approval from someone without authority, Ashcroft. He stepped down due to his illness and passed authority to Comey.

Of great significance, however, is the fact that the program was implemented. It doesn’t matter if it was for an hour, a day or a week. Comey tells us warrantless surveillance on U.S. citizens was implemented without the required DOJ approval due to Comey’s unwillingness to attest “as to its legality.”

[Mind_your_head]

9. This should be it's own thread.....it's the crux of the matter

Please start a new thread with this.

Peace,
M_Y_H

[autorank]

10. Thanks.

I'll do better, write an article and it will be up soon. I was waiting for this and I owe aaronbees which I will acknoledge.

I'll let you know.

[aaronbees]

11. Great find on that article, autorank ... spells it out well

Scary isn't it? No wonder Gonzales is so freakin' cagey here in particular ... good for Schumer to press this again and again today. The whole episode with Gonzoles/Ashcroft captures just how shameless this administration is.

[autorank]

12. Just acknowledging you and Mind_Your_Head and it's done!!!

I'll let you know. Thanks for this post. I knew Comey's testimony was rokken and this is the sequel.
I certainly don't ever want to be questioned by Schumer when I'm vulnerable;) Guys worth than my father when I came home with a banged up car and fed him some b.s.;)

:hi:

[drm604]

13. Just answer the damned question

you fuckin' weasel! I pay your damned salary! :banghead: :grr: :mad:
This should make it clear to anyone that these people have been breaking the law. Why else be so blatantly evasive?