Gonzo: Don't Blame Me For Torture -- I Wasn't At DOJ Yet (TPM)

[struggle4progress]

By Zachary Roth - May 26, 2009, 5:32PM

... Wolf Blitzer also asked him about the ongoing torture debate. And it was interesting to see that Gonzo -- who was White House counsel at the time the torture policies were first formulated -- seemed eager to shift any blame onto the Justice Department he would later go on to lead.

Pressed by Blitzer about his role in approving torture, he first clarified that he wasn't at the Justice Department at the key time, and said "It's the responsibility of the Department of Justice to provide legal guidance on behalf of the executive branch."

In other words: blame Ashcroft, Yoo, and Bybee.

Of course, it's unclear how that stance lines up with a report that Gonzo, while at the White House, personally signed off on CIA requests to conduct torture ...

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/05/gonzo_dont_blame_me_for_torture_--_i_wasnt_at_doj.php

[Lasher]

1. He'll sing like a canary.

But that won't erase his guilt.

[Mist]

2. I have never, and I mean never, seen such a weasely little prick as Gonzales. nt

[tavalon]

3. Liar, liar, pants on fire

Geez, Gonzales, you really don't understand the internetz, do you? Fool. You're a war criminal and you will be tried right along with the rest of them, you whiny weasel.

Apology to weasels everywhere.

[Solly Mack]

4. Perhaps he "can't recall" (snort)

This one

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/documents/dojinterrogationmemo20020801.pdf


or these

Gonzales Helped Set the Course for Detainees
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A48446-2005Jan4.html

[opihimoimoi]

5. Alberto is in deep doo and his ass noes it...A war criminal, he sweats the ticking clock which

slowing grinds its way to his HOUSE and will take him into custody

He is worried beyond normal....betcha nightmares time for him....

[C_U_L8R]

6. A Grand Jury should start with Gonzo

he's such a bad liar... and a total weasel too.