Alberto Gonzales, Casualty of the War on Terrorism

Add Gonzales's name to the list of the walking wounded

By U.S. News Staff

December 31, 2008 RSS Feed Print

"I consider myself a casualty, one of the many casualties of the war on terror."

—Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, speaking to the Wall Street Journal

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He goes on to ask what he did that made him such a target of public ridicule. The WSJ article gives a fairly complete listing of his known transgressions (unprecedented politicizing at the Justice Dept-to include firing the US Attorneys, torture and illegal detentions, illegal wiretaps and surveillance). As with his choral refrain in his Congressional testimony, though, I imagine he doesn't recall any of that either. What a clueless buffoon...

kurt of GA 5:13PM January 02, 2009

Oh, puhleeze

vexact of CA 2:49PM December 31, 2008

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