Palast's Interview With Iglesias: "It Wasn't Just Gonzales-It Was Gonzales' Boss" & Its A Felony

[kpete]

American Nightmare:
Gonzales “wrong and illegal and unethical”

Published August 28th, 2007 in Articles
by Greg Palast
Tuesday, August 28.


When a federal prosecutor says something is illegal, it’s not just small talk. And the illegality wasn’t small. It’s called, “obstruction of justice,” and it’s a felony crime.

Specifically, Attorney General Gonzales, Iglesias told me, wanted him to bring what the prosecutor called “bogus voter fraud” cases. In effect, US Attorney Iglesias was under pressure from the boss to charge citizens with crimes they didn’t commit. Saddam did that. Stalin did that. But Iglesias would NOT do that - even at the behest of the Attorney General. Today, Captain Iglesias, reached by phone, told me, “I’m not going to file any bogus prosecutions.”

But it wasn’t just Gonzales whose acts were “unethical, wrong and illegal.“

It was Gonzales’ boss.

Iglesias says, “The evidence shows right now, is that (Republican Senator Pete) Domenici complained directly to President Bush. And that Bush then called Alberto Gonzales, the Attorney General, and complained about my alleged lack of vigorous enforcement of voter fraud laws.“

In other words, it went to the top. The Decider had decided to punish a prosecutor who wouldn’t prosecute innocents.

much, much more at:
http://www.gregpalast.com/american-nightmare-gonzales-wrong-and-illegal-and-unethical/#more-1825

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R

[Greybnk48]

2. K&R n/t

[jojo54]

3. "In other words, it went to the top."

It's hard to believe that some people (29%) think otherwise.

on edit: k & r

[George II]

17. Is it up to 29% ????? A veritable tsunami of approval!!

[ladym55]

26. They also think that the world is 6,000 years old

And that Jesus hung out with dinosaurs.

Think about it. (oh, yeah, and I'm also guessing their kids can't find the United States on a world map)

[AllyCat]

28. There's more to the world than the United States? n/t

[Fridays Child]

4. k/r and printing out to read at work.

[Blaze Diem]

5. k&r

Thanks Mr Palast.

Is Bush's hideout in Paraguay ready yet?

one day we'll awaken and Bush & Cheney will be gone too.
quietly, in the night, leaving this country to someone else to mop up, like the mess after a mob hit.

They will have succeeded with their coup, and are billions of dollars better off for it.

Heard Cheney recently moved his $$$$ out of the US.

They are all a flight risk..

[Just-plain-Kathy]

30. I wish they'd run off...this way we can get on with trying to fix their mess.

If Bush and Cheney took off, it would save us the embarrassment of Hillary (or whoever the next president will be) giving them both a pardon.

[bdamomma]

6. kick

[progressoid]

7. It's too bad that Greg doesn't get more exposure.

[kpete]

11. lets give it to him then

pass this around

[defendandprotect]

23. Make sure everyone you know sees it -- !!!

[TroglodyteScholar]

27. This is WHY he doesn't get more exposure n/t

[alfredo]

8. K&R

[Javaman]

9. And what's gonna happen? nothing.

so moron* has another felony. I'm so surprised.

Our sleep tight congress has made sure he* will stumble through the last 15 months of his "term" unmolested.

face it folks, accountability is dead. We have slipped into third world status with superpower weaponry.

[Supersedeas]

10. the AG resigns...and there is NO factual expose for what lead to this--where WHERE is the journalism

[L. Coyote]

24. "Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" or "Up is Down and Down is Up"

"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" or "Up is Down and Down is Up"
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x1681812


"Gonzo journalism" refers to when an author cannot remove himself from the subject he investigates,
often referring to a style of writing a story as perceived in the moment in the mind of the writer.
Hunter Thompson believed objectivity in journalism was pure myth.

When Boston Globe reporter Bill Cardoso read Hunter Thompson's "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent
and Depraved" he proclaimed "That is pure Gonzo!" Cardoso used the South Boston Irish slang "gonzo"
describing the last man standing after a drinking marathon.

"Gonzolies" is the English neologism describing the last man standing after a lying match.

---------------------------

"Gonzolies Adventures in Ronderland" is a tale with twisted logic epitomizing the genre of nonsense literature. Gonzolies is just one of the characters in the fairy tale of current American politics. The Republican Party has fallen down a rabbit-hole into an hallucinatory realm populated by grotesque misstatements from wild, anthropomorphic creatures like Talking Point Cards, a rabbit-hole where beliefs transcend reality.

Gonzolies, a bored attorney looking for an adventure, starts a journey at Folly Bridge near Crawford, Texas, and ends up years later in the village of Gods Town. Gonzolies takes interest in a passing, ghostly super hero, a white knight muttering "Oh dear! Oh God! The Commies are coming!" He follows the knight down a deficit hole, and finds himself in a dreamlike world of magical beliefs where Gonzolies and R, the now aging super hero, grow to gigantic size.

Eventually Gonzolies joins Mad-Hater and his boss, March-to-War at a never-ending tea party of deficit spending, they go to a distant seashore and meet Mock Truth, and finally attend the Trial of "Critical Reason," the sole non-grotesque character in their adventure. Critical Reason has been accused of "disturbing truths." While Gonzolies prosecutes Critical Reason, he shrinks to a fraction of his inflated height, and the dream ends. Gonzolies wakes up at the picnic in Crawford, Texas.

Nonetheless, Gonzolies soon realizes that in Crawford up is still down and down is still up, and his new super hero, W, is enraptured by his own hallucinatory realm populated by wild, grotesque misstatements and talking points. Just when diminitive Gonzolies realizes the dream has not actually ended, he awakens again, and he realizes he was still at a lying contest and he was not the last man standing.

This time he has awakened in American politics, on the far side of Folly Bridge in Gods Town, where up is still down and down is up, and the lying contest goes on as W praises Gonzolies. Gonzolies wonders, "Am I still dreaming. How can I know if up is down and down is up?" He also wonders, "Am I still standing? Am I really Gonzolies, or is all this still just a dream in Ronderland?"

[Summer93]

12. Kick and recommend

So, Cheney no longer believes his money is safe in the U.S.

[loudsue]

13. Palast's work speaks for itself..

All that's left to do is K & R & hope everyone gets to read this.

:hi: Thanks, Kpete, for keeping his work front & center!

:kick::kick::kick:

[Joe Chi Minh]

14. K & R

[ourbluenation]

15. Kick and R

:kick:

[DeSwiss]

16. Well that one sure as hell....

...meets the "High Crimes" threshhold. Eh, Nancy???



K&R!!!

[DemReadingDU]

18. evening kick

[Sam Ervin jret]

19. do you think we'll ever get an AG who works for "JUST US"

[defendandprotect]

20. I've sent the link to NY Times and Boston Globe and Nancy Pelosi ---

Just in case they want some "news" of what's actually going on --

Basically, this administration should be locked up -- all of them!!!

Impeach, Nancy . .. . Impeach!!!

I'll also send it to PBS -- what a difference it would make if they took on a segment with someone like Palast!!!! In fact, PALAST!!!!

[0007]

21. Great article! As always Greg Palast is one the greatest investigative

journalist going for the working class today. I sure hope that if Domenici isn't charged that New Mexicans vote the son of a bitch out.

[L. Coyote]

22. BUSH: "I am resigning because the false accusations have created an intolerable

work environment. I have been drug through mud.
It is just wrong, so I must resign in protest.
I am a good man who has done nothing wrong."

:rofl:

[SeattleGirl]

25. He's right on about why Rove left.

He's not going to be fading into the sunset; rather, he's going to go stick his ugly claws into the '08 election.

[PinkyisBlue]

29. Rove's family wants him to spend more time with anyone but them.

There's a reason why Rove's family lives thousands of miles away from him and never joined him in D.C. He's a vile, corrupt, mean-spirited person, and his family wants him to stay the hell away from them.

It appears that most of these neo-con "folks" have major problems in their personal lives; I'll list some of them here:


Karl Rove: married, but it appears he has spent more time in the White House with George than he has in his own house with his family.

Rudy Giuliani: cheated on wife number 1 with wife number 2, cheated on wife number 2 with wife number 3, is he cheating on wife number 3 now?

Rush Limbaugh: unable to maintain a long-term relationship with a woman, has turned to painkillers when the going got too rough.

Ann Coulter: her lack of a significant other speaks for itself; thank God she never had children.

Neil Bush: his wife divorced him after he admitted to sex romps with several women during trips to Asia, one of his kids has been arrested on drug charges, another has displayed embarrassing photos on the internet.

Newt Gingrich: announced his divorce to his first wife while she was recovering from cancer surgery in the hospital, led the charges against Bill Clinton during his presidency while he, himself, was committing adultery.


It seems there's a new scandal every day involving Republicans (Congressman Mark Foley and Senator Larry Craig, to name but two recent ones).

[porphyrian]

31. I'll definitely kick that. - n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

32. Our CIC, the man in the WH

Criminal in Chief doing what he does best. Fucking things up so bad that everyone must pitch in too mend his destructive influence. BIGGEST LOSER EVAH!

[me b zola]

33. k&r

[bos1]

34. Help me out here-- it doesn't seem to say that Bush ordered the

punishment of the prosecutor, just that he called Gonzales about the subject of what was going on.

[radfringe]

35. k&R

[Seabiscuit]

36. Always nice to have the obvious confirmed by solid evidence. n/t

[lovuian]

37. its always been Bush

Bush Bush Bush

[Supersedeas]

38. why does the GoP/Corp Establishment media continue to ignore this!!