Hound them, and pound them!
The smug, flippant, little smart-ass Alberto Gonzales hasn't been quite so smug this past week.
He's going to get that smirk removed permanently from his face by Patrick Leahy.
Alberto has a big problem. His previous testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee isn't matching up very well with emails and other evidence that's now appeared.
It's always about the lying and the covering up.
Wasn't even a crime up until then.
Bill Clinton fired all 93 of his United States attorneys - Of course, come to think of it, if you fire all of them...it wouldn't be 'political', would it? Especially if it's done at he very start of your term.
No, they schemed to get rid of eight selected U.S. Attorney's who weren't playing the politics the way they were wanted to be played.
Slimy and unethical - But not a crime, they say.
But Alberto, the lying and the covering up will get you nailed every time.
Your return to Texas has been a long time coming. And good riddance!
E-mail records and documents the Justice Department released to Congress Tuesday to clarify why the US attorneys were fired – and what role the White House may have played – have only further stoked lawmaker ire. At first, lawmakers mainly wanted to know if the firings were a political purge involving the White House – and if a little-noted provision added last year to the USA Patriot Act at the request of the Justice Department was put there to facilitate it.
Now, members on both sides of the aisle also want to know if the attorney general and other officials deliberately misled them in briefings and testimony about the fired US attorneys.
"I boiled over when I read information I had not been told," said Sen. Patrick Leahy (D) of Vermont, chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, referring to the documents on the firings. "I don't want briefings any more. I didn't get answers. I now want open hearings, under oath."
Gonzales has promised to cooperate with the Senate Judiciary investigation. Still, when the panel meets Thursday, it will decide whether to authorize subpoenas for five Justice Department officials to testify under oath, in the case that cooperation is not forthcoming.
Senator Leahy and the panel's ranking Republican, Sen. Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, are also requesting appearances by three White House officials: Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, former White House Counsel Harriet Miers, and her deputy White House counsel, William Kelley, who are cited in released documents. csmonitor
