Reply #232: Sam Husseini: Gonzalez and Leahy: Scandal as Cover-up?

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Gonzalez and Leahy: Scandal as Cover-up?
by Sam Husseini
www.dissidentvoice.org
April 21, 2007
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Apr07/Husseini21.htm


Is the questioning of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales evidence that the Democratic Party leadership is finally scrutinizing the Bush administration? Or does it provide a useful illusion to distract from the Democrats' continued failure to raise questions about long-standing, deeper issues?

Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont Thursday morning delivered a tongue-lashing to Gonzales: "Today the Department of Justice is experiencing a crisis of leadership perhaps unrivaled during its 137-year history," said the Vermont Democrat. "There's a growing scandal swirling around the dismissal" of prosecutors, he added.

But when I asked Leahy about investigating the impeachment of Bush and Cheney late last month, he replied only by talking about the attorney general scandal, without addressing the question of impeaching Bush and Cheney........

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But there is a lack of answering questions. Gonzales is being taken to task for not answering questions; but he's not the only one.