Did Attorney Scandal Hearing Put the 'Gone' in Gonzales?

[madokie]

http://www.alternet.org/story/50800/

Attorney General Gonzales' testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee was a case lesson in obfuscation, and not even Republican senators were buying it.

When can we put the "consensus" of the senior leadership of the Department of Justice, CSLDJ (pronounced Con Sell Dodge), under oath and ask it questions and then impeach it?

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales assured the Senate Judiciary Committee today that nothing improper has been done and that, in addition, he's not to blame for it, because he simply obeyed the CSLDJ, although he does not actually remember having done so. And if members of the CSLDJ contradict Gonzales or have acted in ways he does not approve of, well, you'll just have to ask Mr. Sampson about that.

Kyle Sampson, Gonzo's Chief of Staff, is a gentleman who well deserves his name given the apparently superhuman feat he's performed of running the Department of Justice for years in exactly the direction his boss did not want it to go. That being said, Gonzales stands by every decision he never made, even the ones he remembers not making.

[DFW]

1. I think Gonzo et al have studied Watergate closely

The corruption is if anything far worse in this administration
than it was in Nixon's, and they are no idiots. They have prepared
well not get blindsided by another Watergate-style series of
investigations, and are experts at playing CYA.

Instead of admitting to, and turning over, such incriminating
evidence as their emails (Nixon's tapes), they will continue to
hide evidence, and then lie about its existence, and when that
will no longer fly, destroy existing evidence before it can be used
be used against them. The use of RNC email accounts is a pretty clear
indication that they knew from the start that their actions would not
stand up to scrutiny by an honest judiciary committee. If they
produce the evidence requested, they are cooked. As long as it works,
they will delay and refuse to produce evidence, and try to run out
the clock. They will fold their arms, smile their smug smile, and
basically say "Whaddaya gonna do about it, chump?" It is up to Leahy
and Conyers to do something about it, and they re trying. Everybody
knows what everybody else is up to. It's just a question of obtaining
the tangible proof that others will hide to save their skins. In other
words, it's up to us to not be chumps.