Alberto Gonzales: 'I have no confidence whatsoever' in Nunes memo

[DonViejo]

Source: The Hill




BY JULIA MANCHESTER - 02/02/18 12:17 PM EST

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez slammed a Republican-drafted memo alledging surveillance at the Department of Justice on Friday, saying he did not have any confidence in the controversial document.

“I have no confidence whatsoever in what’s going to come out of the House,” the former attorney general under George W. Bush told Time, adding "Nunes seems to be part of the Trump team.”

The memo was drafted by staffers for House Intelligence chairman Devin Nunes (R-Calif.).

Democrats and the intelligence community have spoken out against its publication, saying the information is misleading and could reveal sensitive intelligence sources and methods. Nunes has called those claims "spurious."



Read more: http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/372018-alberto-gonzales-i-have-no-confidence-whatsoever-in-nunes-memo

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. If you've lost Alberto Gonzales, you're hitting rock bottom.

But I'm afraid there is no rock bottom for this administration.

[knightmaar]

5. "Rockbottom" is right there next to "disqualifying"

There's always something under the bedrock he can dig to, always a group of people who still consider him competent.

[PatSeg]

14. Hey

They even lost Trey Gowdy, there must be something lower than rock bottom.

[DeminPennswoods]

16. Boy, you can say that again!

Just last night I think Maddow began her show with Gonzales and US Atty firings for which he was pushed out of his job.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. I'll be back around dinner time

I think I'm going to faint .........

[Scarsdale]

3. Alberto?

The guy whose memory is as bad as Sessions? He could not remember a thing under oath, and he smiled the entire time.

[Me.]

4. OUCH

Stick a fork time

[Gothmog]

6. Alberto Gonzales used to be the head of the DOJ

[DoBotherMe]

7. Isn't that "quaint"

[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/02/the-torture-memos-10-years-later/252439/|

This prompted Gonzales to write a memo, on January 25, 2002, that is still chilling to read. In it, he argued that the War on Terror required new interpretations of old rules. He wrote: "This new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions requiring that captured enemy be afforded such things as commissary privileges." By making the War on Terror sound like an episode of Hogan's Heroes, in other words, Gonzales convinced President Bush to see things his way.

[louis-t]

8. Says the man who "can't recall" the simplest things.

Says the man who has never held a job that wasn't working for GWB. Not a very good source for a legal opinion.

[underpants]

9. He spent 6 months wondering around D.C.

clicking the trunk release on his key fob trying find his car

[louis-t]

10. Haaaa!!!

"I can't recall where I parked my car...I can't recall where I parked my car...I can't recall where I parked my car...I can't recall where I parked my car..."

[BumRushDaShow]

11. Took alot to wake Gonzo up!

[tanyev]

12. Oh, good. Albertos memory problems have gone into spontaneous remission.

I was so worried about the poor man.

[Turn CO Blue]

13. So, the torture memo guy doesn't have confidence in the Nunes memo or in the memo guy.

Layer upon layer of weirdness in the news these days.

Irony is dead and now they're just beating it with whips.

[GoCubsGo]

15. Good Gawd. This is where we're at now?

A place where WE agree with fucking Alberto Gonzales? We are so screwed.

[LenaBaby61]

18. "A place where WE agree with fucking Alberto Gonzales? We are so screwed."

[meadowlander]

17. Well, since Nunes was part of the Trump Transition Team that is being investigated

and never should have been within 100 miles of the investigation in the first place, "seems to be part of the Trump team" is understating it a bit.