Alberto Gonzales Emerges From Under His Bridge - "Obama Made Jack Bauer Sad" - The Rude Pundit

[kpete]

1/27/2009
Alberto Gonzales Emerges From Under His Bridge:
The Rude Pundit

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Most fascinating was Gonzales's reaction to AG nominee Eric Holder's simple statement that waterboarding is torture, as we have understood torture for, let's say, ever: "I think that one needs to be careful in making a blanket pronouncement like that if you don't have all the information because of the effect it may have, again, on the morale and the dedication of intelligence officials and lawyers throughout the administration."

And then, being the good ball-licking lackey he always has been, he offered, "Nonetheless, the very discussion about it is extremely discouraging. And I have talked to officials, senior officials at the CIA, for example, who tell me that agents at the CIA no longer have any interest at doing anything, anything remotely controversial, for fear that they are going to be investigated and that they have to go out and hire lawyers in order to do their job. And so, it has a very discouraging effect, and the net result of all of that is that people will not be doing what they need to be doing to gain intelligence that will help us connect the dots and protect our country from another attack."

Now there's a weaselly motherfucker desperately trying to stay out of prison now that the chance at a pardon has passed. If bad things happen, he says, it'll be because the Obama administration made Jack Bauer sad.

Here's the fuckin' deal: if, at any point, Gonzales thought what he was doing was wrong, he could have fuckin' left. He was a partner in a law firm, a Texas Supreme Court justice. He wouldn't have been out on the street. Honorable men do that. They throw themselves on their swords rather than live in disgrace. Hell, at this point, the streets should be littered with the bodies of suicides from the Bush administration.

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[grannie4peace]

1. he doesn't know the administration ?

[spanone]

2. mr gonzales was an insult to all attorneys...law is not partisan albert you shit.

[Peace Patriot]

3. Oh dear, is this a PROMISE or what?

"...the very discussion about it is extremely discouraging. And I have talked to officials, senior officials at the CIA, for example, who tell me that agents at the CIA no longer have any interest at doing anything, anything remotely controversial, for fear that they are going to be investigated and that they have to go out and hire lawyers in order to do their job. And so, it has a very discouraging effect, and the net result of all of that is that people will not be doing what they need to be doing to gain intelligence that will help us connect the dots and protect our country from another attack." --Alberto Gonzales

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It's important to read between the lines with Bushwhackos--not just the vomitty, twisty rollercoaster of their apparent intention (--in this case, to blame Obama and those of us who believe in the rule of law for CIA agents looking over their shoulders*). No, it's the seeming promise that our devotion to the rule of law WILL bring more disaster that makes me nervous. Because I have no doubt at all that Gonzo's puppetmasters would arrange more attacks, if it suited their purpose. So, hearing one of their Pinnocchios cry doom, even if he does have a particular personal reason for wanting us to abandon the rule of law, a little inner voice is screaming, "Uh-oh! Look out!"

And while you're cringing in anticipation of planes falling out of sky, do have a laugh at the notion of Bushwhacks wanting good intelligence.

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*(Ask Valerie Plame about that.)