Dan Froomkin: Who's Scripting Gonzales?

[babylonsister]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/03/26/BL2007032600680.html

Who's Scripting Gonzales?

By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Monday, March 26, 2007; 1:36 PM

Why did Attorney General Alberto Gonzales go before the television cameras two weeks ago and deny that he knew anything about last year's firings of U.S. attorneys, when -- as we just learned from yet another Friday-night document dump -- he approved them during an hour-long meeting in November?

Did that meeting not make an impression? Did he choose to lie about it? Was he secretly drawing a distinction between giving his approval and knowing anything about what he had given his approval for?

Or was he just reading whatever was put in front of him?

It's no secret in Washington that Gonzales is not an autonomous player. His entire career has been as an enabler of George Bush. He does what he's told.

When he was White House counsel, for instance, he was widely seen as being under the thrall of vice presidential counsel David S. Addington on such signature issues as torture and presidential power.

It's not as obvious who has been his minder since he became attorney general two years ago. But presumably either he or, more to the point, the staffers who write his speeches and draw up his talking points still get their marching orders directly from the West Wing.

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[durtee librul]

1. We can all say what we want,

but we knew what we were getting when he got confirmed. We knew we were getting a lap doggie for W

[MethuenProgressive]

2. Karl Rove, obviously:

Gonzo was trotted out in front of a WhiteHouse signshop "Protect the Kids!" backdrop the morning he'd be asked about resigning. "No, I'm going to stay focused on protecting the kids," he said with a straight face...

[Iwasthere]

3. Yep. Protecting the kids...

They aren't kids he is protecting, THEY ARE CRIMINALS !!!