(Alberto) Gonzales backtracks on support for CIA probe

[sabra]

Source: Wash Times

Former Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales said Thursday that his previous assertion that it was "legitimate to question and examine" charges of CIA abuses of suspected terrorists did not mean he endorsed such an investigation.

"Contrary to press reporting and based on the information that's available to me," Mr. Gonzales said during an interview Thursday with The Washington Times, "I don't support the investigation by the department because this is a matter that has already been reviewed thoroughly and because I believe that another investigation is going to harm our intelligence gathering capabilities and that's a concern that's shared by career intelligence officials and so for those reasons I respectfully disagree with the decision."

On Monday, Mr. Gonzales told The Washington Times radio program that he understood Attorney Eric H. Holder Jr.'s inquiry would look at "the 1 percent of actors who went beyond the legal limits prescribed by the lawyers at the Department of Justice."

"We obviously worked very hard during the Bush administration to establish ground rules to establish parameters about how to deal with terrorists, because we're a nation of laws, and if people go beyond that, I think it is legitimate to question and examine that conduct to ensure people are held accountable for their actions, even if it's action in prosecuting the war on terror and trying to protect America."

Read more: http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/sep/03/exclusive-gonzales-backtracks-support-cia-probe/

[bleever]

1. Fredo broke someone's heart.

It was this, or the boat ride.

[No Elephants]

3. Go fish, Alberto.

[Piewhacket]

11. ROFL. What a brain damaged macaroon. Fredo, It was YOU. We know it was YOU.

[Botany]

26. Alberto aka Fredo was asked what he thought of "boat rides"

[Jansen]

2. Back on message

Someone must have pointed out to him that a proper investigation would mean his ass in a sling.

[dgibby]

4. Fredo must have found a horse's head in his bed, just like Tom Ridge did. n/t

[notadmblnd]

6. GMTA

:rofl:

[Lugnut]

10. Bingo!

My thoughts exactly.

[notadmblnd]

5. First Ridge, now Gonzo

What? Did they wake up in the middle of the night to find a horses head in the bed with them?

With all the government spying programs they have in place, it shouldn't take much to find out who is making the threats.

[benld74]

7. SEE just like I said about Ridge!

Both of them needed more koolaid! After they drank it, POOF! The 'magic' happens again.

[Kahuna]

8. Que sorpresa!!!

NOT!

[madmom]

9. Why of course he does.. what took him so long, ridge already did it!

[BonnieJW]

12. Wouldn't you love to know who "gets" to these people?

Tom Ridge writes a book and then denounces the book's website and even the flyleaf. Now Fredo. Blackwater, maybe?

[mvd]

15. It's so quick that I bet threats were involved

We had a criminal, mob-like in loyalty government for 8 years. I still think we're lucky they surrendered power (though they are still working in the shadows I bet.)

[sofa king]

18. I'd say several thousand unemployed assassins have something to do with it.

What better domestic job for people with such training than riding herd on the criminal organization which created them?

[jtrockville]

19. Who says they're unemployed?

Maybe Cheney's "growing his own", so-to-speak.

[sofa king]

21. Excellent point.

Day by day the magnitude of the criminal dealings of the Bush Administration becomes more clear. They must have a plan to police themselves, or else they're all going to go down. I'd say this winter is going to be a tragic time for mid-level Bush Administration operatives. My guess is a dozen will be dead under Republican circumstances by the end of the year.

[jtrockville]

25. I was hoping for life in prison, not death.

But I suspect you're right.

[bluesmail]

13. Ridge first, then Gonzo. Who will be brave enough

to take Dick, George, Condi, Rumsfeld et al Down to the Dungeon?

[sinkingfeeling]

14. Guess Cheney invited him hunting.

[Wizard777]

16. Oh yeah, that's right. I'm against going to jail for my crimes!

:crazy: What the hell was I thinking. Felons suddenly growing scruples never works out very good for them. Gonzo will have to maintain his moral depravity until he's in jail or the day he dies. Which ever comes first.

[tomm2thumbs]

17. bwahahahaha - they are all running scared with their peepee all shriveled up by fear

well, I guess it might be the cold - or it is just that way normally - either way - makes perfect sense to me

[Enrique]

20. I'm surprised he remembers saying it

maybe his memory lapses only happen when he's under oath.

[Solly Mack]

22. lolololololol

[grantcart]

23. Just when I thought I was out - they pull me back in

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACIS1inmjFc

[damntexdem]

24. He made a self-serving statement about prosecuting those who violated his criminally-set standards.

But now he gets the memo to back off that or else.

Any investigation needs to target him along with the other war criminals.