Gonzales Prepares to Fight for His Job in Testimony

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Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has retreated from public view this week in an intensive effort to save his job, spending hours practicing testimony and phoning lawmakers for support in preparation for pivotal appearances in the Senate this month, according to administration officials.

After struggling for weeks to explain the extent of his involvement in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, Gonzales and his aides are viewing Senate testimony on April 12 and April 17 as seriously as if it were a confirmation proceeding for a Supreme Court or a Cabinet appointment, officials said.

Ed Gillespie, a former Republican National Committee chairman, and Timothy E. Flanigan, who worked for Gonzales at the White House, have met with the attorney general to plot strategy. The department has scheduled three days of rigorous mock testimony sessions next week and Gonzales has placed phone calls to more than a dozen GOP lawmakers seeking support, officials said.


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Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.) and Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) sent a letter to Gonzales on Tuesday, asking for "appropriate firewalls" between potential witnesses involved in the firings.

"Our question to you is: Who do we talk to at the Department of Justice?" Leahy and Whitehouse wrote. "The office of the Attorney General appears to be hopelessly conflicted."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/04/AR2007040402614.html?hpid=topnews

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1. He's Practicing How To Lie and Deceive and To Use Weasel Words.....

to get him through his testimony. Gilespie & Flanigan are helping him prepare. I wonder if Rove is putting in his two cents in the preparation.

Isn't it interesting that this is the example our government is setting for the children in this country. How to lie and get away with it. Will teach you how to do it really good.

Are they using "Lying for Dummies" for a reference? Or are they using "An Idiots Guide for Lying".

[ThomWV]

2. Someone Explain This Quote For Me

From the article, second page:

"After traveling around the country much of last week in an attempt to shore up fractured relations with U.S. attorneys, Gonzales has spent this week sequestered in his fifth-floor office suite, poring over thousands of pages of documents related to his upcoming testimony."

The key here are the words 'pouring over thousands of pages of documents'. Where were these thousands of pages of documents when his Chief Of Staff was before the Committee last week? He testified that there was little to no documentation about the firings, just some little thing he kept in his desk drawer - that mysteriously no one asked him to produce.

[BuyingThyme]

3. He's going a long way to protect the children.

[Tinksrival]

4. It doesn't take practice to tell the truth.

You have to practice to be a convincing liar. Just say'in.

[grannylib]

5. Too true. It's always amazed me that people seem to think they need

to prepare if they plan on being honest.
I mean, really...what a joke.

[hang a left]

6. I really smell a special prosecutor appointment.

""Our question to you is: Who do we talk to at the Department of Justice?" Leahy and Whitehouse wrote. "The office of the Attorney General appears to be hopelessly conflicted."


I say no immunity for no one. Haul all their asses in front of a GJ.