Abu in Trouble: Gonzales Failing Prep for Testimony

[babylonsister]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/04/10/abu-in-trouble-gonzales-failing-prep-for-testimony/

Abu in Trouble: Gonzales Failing Prep for Testimony
Posted by Jon Ponder | Apr. 10, 2007
“He’s not ready,” Tasia Scolinos, Gonzales’s public-affairs chief.

Last week, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cleared his calendar for nearly two weeks in order to memorize answers to questions he might be asked under oath when he testifies before Congress on April 17.

The challenge facing Bush’s loyal flying monkey, of course, is that he can’t tell the truth under oath without implicating flying monkeys higher up in the food chain, including Karl Rove and Bush’s secretary, Harriet Miers, and maybe the president himself, in the scandal around the firing of U.S. attorneys late last year:

his own closest advisers are nervous about whether he is up to the task. At a recent “prep” for a prospective Sunday talk-show interview, Gonzales’s performance was so poor that top aides scrapped any live appearances. During the March 23 session in the A.G.’s conference room, Gonzales was grilled by a team of top aides and about what he knew about the plan to fire seven U.S. attorneys last fall. But Gonzales kept contradicting himself and “getting his timeline confused,” said one participant … His advisers finally got “exasperated” with him, the source added. “He’s not ready,” Tasia Scolinos, Gonzales’s public-affairs chief, told the A.G.’s top aides after the session was over…

The problem is, DOJ lawyers have forbidden Gonzales to have any contact with other witnesses, and since everyone close to him is on the witness list, he’s having a hard time getting his story straight.

While the attorney general studies his lines 24/7, and his underlings are all legally constrained from talking with him or each other (presumably) the Dept. of Justice is leaderless and rudderless.

[NMDemDist2]

1. heh K&N

:evilgrin:

[ClassWarrior]

2. I don't believe it. They're managing expectations.

If he wasn't doing so well, the Rape-Publicans wouldn't be all over the whore news saying it.

NGU.

[hlthe2b]

5. Yupper

CW'd got it...:thumbsup:

I still think he'll f_kup, but yes, they are managing expectations.

[ccpup]

6. I agree with you.

This "account" seemed a bit too chatty for something as hush-hush and important as the AG prepping for testimony. I suspect they're putting this "story" out there so, when he does testify, the news won't be the many lies he tells and how embarrassingly bad he was, but how "well" he did in light of the "stories" of how poor he was doing beforehand.

You know, the ol' Gonzo hits a home run headline.

[Gman]

7. Nice try on their part, but I don't think it matters

Americans expect much more from their leaders and especially the AG. That idiot in the WH can get away with low expectations. The one of the most prominent of cabinet positions can't.

[MaineDem]

8. Exactly

Like Bush and the debates in '04.

I really believe nothing the administration says.

[MannyGoldstein]

3. I Hope That This Becomes The Disturbing Public Spectacle

that it deserves to be.

That fucker should twist in the wind - he deserves it, and it should serve as a warning to the rest of those scum.

[Solly Mack]

4. I'm supposed to believe Gonzales has had no contact with other witnesses?

We are talking the Bush administration are we not?

We are talking the Torture Czar are we not?

So I'm supposed to believe the cheerleaders of torture and the unitary executive are following the rules?

Not in this lifetime

[rodeodance]

9. and Condi is failing (Waxman keeps pushing)

[tanyev]

10. Memorizin' the truthiness is hard werk.

[AndyA]

11. Only in America!

The Attorney General has to take TWO WEEKS OFF to REMEMBER ANSWERS.

Uh huh. If you're going to tell the truth, Gonzo, there wouldn't be anything to remember.

Face it: you've been caught.

Hand in the cookie jar, cookie crumbs on your face.

Pants on the floor, husband standing at the door.

Money in hand, security camera filming you as you run out the bank door.

You've been caught. Resign. Apologize. Stand trial.

With the system of justice you've been overseeing, you should get a fair trial, right?

Only in America would people believe for one second this man might not be guilty. :eyes:

[Javaman]

12. I may just take that day off so I can watch abu squirm. nt

[hvn_nbr_2]

13. All he really needs to do is waterboard the whole Congress. nt