AG Gonzales to Return to Capitol Hill For Meeting With Democratic Senator (Pryor)

[babylonsister]

(Apologies for source)

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,268205,00.html


Attorney General Gonzales to Return to Capitol Hill For Meeting With Democratic Senator

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

By Trish Turner



WASHINGTON — Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will return to Capitol Hill on Wednesday, this time to meet with Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor, who recently called for the attorney general's resignation, accusing Gonzales of lying to the senator and his constituency in Arkansas.

Pryor was referring to a meeting he had in mid-December 2006 in which the attorney general asked him to consider Tim Griffin, a former aide to White House political strategist Karl Rove, for the job of U.S. attorney for Arkansas.

Gonzales' former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson told committee investigators that Gonzales assured Pryor he wanted Griffin to go through Senate confirmation if Pryor approved of him. But four days after that conversation, Sampson pushed forward a plan from the Justice Department to circumvent the Senate confirmation process through the use of a provision slipped into the renewed U.S.A. Patriot Act that allowed interim U.S. attorneys to serve indefinitely without Senate approval. That provision has since been removed by lawmakers made aware of its unintended consequences.

"The attorney general not only lied to me as a person, but, when he lied to me, he lied to the Senate and he lied to the people I represent," Pryor said last month after hearing Sampson's statements.

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[PSPS]

1. That's what crooks do, senator. They lie.

[Jim__]

2. Is this Fox spin?

It's a curious wording: Gonzales assured Pryor he wanted Griffin to go through Senate confirmation if Pryor approved of him.

Did Pryor approve of Griffin? If not, then Gonzo trying to put Griffin in without going through Senate confirmation doesn't appear to be a lie. Just more weasling from a weasel.

[babylonsister]

4. Here's another article that's NOT Faux:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070424/gonzales_watch_ag_to_meet_with.htm?s_cid=rss:site1

Gonzales Watch: AG to Meet With Angry Senator
April 24, 2007 | 2:06 PM ET | Permanent Link

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has set up a meeting with Democratic Sen. Mark Pryor of Arkansas, who has accused Gonzales of lying to him about plans to replace a U.S. attorney in his state.

At last Thursday's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the controversial firings of eight U.S. attorneys, South Carolina Republican Lindsey Graham urged Gonzales to reach out to his colleague to assuage Pryor's anger. Pryor has accused Gonzales of lying about whether the attorney general was committed to submitting for Senate confirmation a replacement U.S. attorney for Arkansas.

Pryor's communications director, Michael Teague, told U.S. News that Gonzales's office called Pryor late Monday and scheduled a meeting for Wednesday morning. Teague says he is not sure whether that will make any dent in Pryor's views that Gonzales should resign as attorney general.

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Quick, someone ship Pryor a backbone before the meeting. I'll bet that after it,

Mark will be smiling and saying it was all a misunderstanding and that Gonzo should stay on as AG.

[midnight]

5. I resisted opening this thread. because I thought why is this

Guy still talking. He should be very busy packing his bags.