The Trial of Alberto Gonzales & Bush sits right in the middle of it.-By: Scott Horton

[kpete]

The Trial of Alberto Gonzales
DEPARTMENT No Comment
BY Scott Horton
PUBLISHED November 18, 2007

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But a report in Friday’s Kitsap (Washington) Sun gets us a bit closer to the core of the case which is emerging against the former attorney general. And President Bush sits right in the middle of it. No doubt he’s dusting off another one of those pardon forms right now.

Our relator is former Seattle U.S. Attorney John McKay, speaking to a crowd of lawyers. And it seems that ground zero for Gonzales’s troubles can be found in the Land of Enchantment. McKay

pointed specifically to Gonzales’ role in the firing of the U.S. Attorney for New Mexico, David Iglesias. New Mexico Republican Sen. Pete Domenici called Iglesias to see about getting indictments against state Democratic officials before the 2006 election. McKay said it’s clear from testimony that Gonzales met with Domenici and other New Mexico Republicans — and with the president — about the fraud case there.

“It’s apparent that he had a conversation with the president about David Iglesias and David Iglesias was fired six weeks later,” he said. “There was real live investigation and the Republicans wanted the indictment out in time to help them in the election, and Iglesias said ‘no’ and they fired him. “Now if all of that’s true and the attorney general was aware of that when he fired David Iglesias, then he has some ’splainin’ to do — and probably in front of a grand jury.”

To put this in a bit sharper focus, New Mexico was standing on the edge of a knife. It went right down to the wire in both the 2000 and 2004 presidential elections, both races being decided by paper-thin highly contested margins. In 2006, Domenici’s protégée and heir apparent, Republican Congresswoman Heather Wilson of Albuquerque was facing her strongest opponent yet, New Mexico Attorney General Patricia Madrid. Polls were pointing to a photo-finish and Wilson was figuring high on the list of Republicans likely to lose a seat in a year that ended disastrously for the G.O.P.

New Mexico Republicans were counting on Iglesias to deliver an indictment of a key New Mexico Democrat to tip the balance. The idea was to use the indictment against Madrid, charging that she was an ineffective watchdog over corruption in state government and that the feds had to come in and deal with the matter. (In fact of course the feds had pre-empted the investigation by claiming it as their own).

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more at:
http://harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001694

[seafan]

1. Horton starts out saying

.....this about Alberto Gonzales:

No, we’re not there yet. In fact, Fredo hasn’t even been indicted. And with political appointees yanking the chains ferociously as they have since the beginning of the Bush Administration, it has to be reckoned as a long shot that he will be indicted—notwithstanding a long line of now well-defined perjuries before Congress.

After a stab of nausea, I thought... moment by moment, this nest of criminals defies the odds of a spectacular collapse with every lie, every threat against those who follow the law, and every violation of the rule of law.

These people are not superhuman. They will not survive this. Cynicism that they will get away with their serial crimes is rampant. But they will be held accountable.


---"The wheels of justice grind slowly, but they grind exceedingly fine."

[blogslut]

2. Gonzo needs your help! Give now!

Disgraced Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' legal defense fund

Disgraced former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under investigation for federal tampering and perjury charges , has had a legal defense fund set up for him by his friends.
Disgraced former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, under investigation for federal tampering and perjury charges, has had a legal defense fund set up for him by his friends.

"An innocent man cannot simply trust that the truth will out."

WASHINGTON (UPI) -- Friends of former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales have established a legal defense fund in light of a federal tampering and perjury investigation.

David Leitch, a friend of Gonzalez' and lawyer at the Ford Motor Co., suggested in an e-mail to potential contributors they donate between $500 and $5,000, since Gonzales does not have the money necessary to defend himself at the conclusion of the Department of Justice inquiry if prosecution is recommended, The Washington Post reported...

link: http://alaskareport.com/upi3/u41117_defense_fund.htm

Help him now! Before it's too late! Pweeeeze!

[Frustratedlady]

3. Are you sayin' that the Repug party isn't providing the funds to defend?

Goodness! They have someone do their dirty work and then dump them? Hmmmm! I would think George and his cronies would have worked that out a long time ago...when they were trying to weasel out of the problem in the first place. With all those lawyers spending mega hours trying to figure out how to save his skin, wouldn't you think they'd come up with some scheme where they could pluck some funds out of this budget or that budget? Maybe hire a little known company to do some bogus repair work in NO and then return the funds to the Repugs once it was laundered?

They're losing their grip on the treasury.

[blogslut]

4. Ahhh, well

There's a big pile of discarded good buddies. Fall guys are like kleenex to Dubya.

[rateyes]

5. Hey, Leahy and Conyers....

Gonazales lied to your committee. Bush, Rove, Miers, et al were in on this. What are you going to do about it? Justice has NOT been served in the AG matter. And, now we have, "IDK if waterboarding is torture" Mukasey.

:banghead:

[2 Much Tribulation]

6. kick

[L. Coyote]

7. Scott Horton is emerging as both the Woodward and the Berstein of out time.

KUDOS!

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