Gonzales Contradicts His Own Testimony

[sabra]

Source: ABC News

Recently Released E-Mails Show Attorney General's Involvement in Attorney Firing Talks
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April 16, 2007 — Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' assertion that he was not involved in identifying the eight U.S. attorneys who were asked to resign last year is at odds with a recently released internal Department of Justice e-mail, ABC News has learned.

That e-mail said that Gonzales supported firing one federal prosecutor six months before she was asked to leave.

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Gonzales has insisted he left those decisions to his staff, but ABC News has learned he was so concerned about U.S. attorney Carol Lam's lackluster record on immigration enforcement in San Diego that he supported firing her months before she was dismissed, according to a newly released e-mail from his former chief of staff.

The e-mail, which came from Gonzales aide Kyle Sampson, appeared to contradict the prepared written testimony Gonzales submitted to Congress over the weekend in advance of his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. In his prepared testimony, Gonzales said that during the months that his senior staff was evaluating U.S. attorneys, including Lam, "I did not make the decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign."

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[WillParkinson]

1. Well, I don't really remember....

No offense to anyone, but I'm starting to think the entire administration has Alzheimers setting in.

[Marnieworld]

5. The White House must have black mold

We need a complete evacuation and cleaning of it. They are clearly being affected by some sort of memory affecting influence. What biological air-borne entity made Karl Rove delete something 5 million times? It's historic I tells ya! :D

[soothsayer]

2. well he's got two days to revise his comments, which he will.

[natrat]

3. lying liars and the lies they tell

[shanti]

4. immigration? ba-loney!

that kite won't fly, but they're pushing it for all its worth.

[truthisfreedom]

6. Kicked and Recommended! Back to the business of the People!

Put gonzo back at the top of the page and keep him there!

[Vinca]

7. This administration can't distinguish truth from lies anymore. nt

[Magleetis]

8. It was a mistake

He didn't mean to say that, er uh someone else told him to say that but thats not what he meant when someone else said that. This is really what I meant to say and what I said meant I said. OK? so whats the problem.