Six Degrees of Separation:

[illinoisprogressive]

Six Degrees Of Separation: Alberto Gonzales Involved in Plame Cover-Up
By: Nicole Belle @ 6:25 PM - PDT Submit or Digg this Post

I swear, this guy just oozes slime. Please contact your Senators and urge them to support Sen. Schumer's call for Gonzales's resignation.

Discourse.net:

As Senators start to pile on our lamentable Attorney General for presiding over Karl Rove's politicization of the US Attorneys Office — an offense known as 'obstruction of justice' — I would like to direct your attention to a similar but somehow forgotten scandal.

Everyone seems to have forgotten that then-White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales also presided over one of the more sordid aspects of the Plame scandal. When Gonzales first learned that the Justice Department had started an official investigation into the Plame leak, Gonzales waited twelve hours before putting the White House staff on notice that they had to preserve documents and electronic files. Which seemed than — and seems now — like an open invitation to "shredding and deleting," not to mention getting your story straight. In short, obstruction of justice.

And it's not as if Gonzales dithered trying to make up his mind what to do. He told White House Chief of Staff Andy Card about the investigation right away — many hours before sending the official notification to preserve all evidence.

<..>Lest you think this is much ado about nothing, consider that when Patrick Fitzgerald came looking, key emails to or from the Vice President's office mysteriously could not be found in the White House computer system's archives.

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[solara]

1. Support Schumer's call for Gonzales to resign? No way....Resignation is not nearly enough..

Subpoena Gonzales get him under oath, question him and then IMPEACH him... INDICT him.. INCARCERATE him...resignation is WAY too easy and does not address his crimes. BushCo is majorly 'screwn' if Gonzales is impeached....Impeachment is what I will support with my phone calls and emails...nothing less. Once Congress sees how effective and NECESSARY impeachment is for these criminals...maybe they will do the right thing with the rest of the BushCo cabal.

INVESTIGATE IMPEACH INDICT INCARCERATE

[depakid]

2. The man certainly should be disbarred

If he came from a state other than Texas, there's a chance he might just be.....

[solara]

4. Indeed, at the very least nt

[Missy Vixen]

3. IIRC, the order to lock down the White House server

took 12 hours to be carried out. That was about 12 hours too late.

DH works for a major e-mail security provider. I told him about this; he shook his head in disbelief.

Julie