Gonzales Advised Bush On Probe After Learning He Might Be A Subject

[kpete]

Report: Gonzales had FISA inquiry conflict
Published: Mar. 15, 2007 at 9:28 PM
U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales reportedly advised President George W. Bush on a federal inquiry even after learning his own actions might be probed.

Citing government records and interviews, the National Journal reported Thursday that, shortly before he advised Bush in 2006 on whether to shut down a Justice Department investigation into the administration's warrantless domestic eavesdropping program, Gonzales learned that his own conduct would likely be a focus of the inquiry.


Bush shut down the Justice Department investigation in April 2006 by denying investigators security clearances they would have needed to examine the eavesdropping program.


It was unclear whether Bush knew at the time that the inquiry -- which was to have been conducted by the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility -- would likely examine Gonzales' conduct, the newspaper said. Sources familiar with the matter told the Journal that if the probe had been permitted to continue, it would have scrutinized Gonzales' role in authorizing the eavesdropping program while he was White House counsel, and his oversight of the program as attorney general.

more at:
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20070315-093027-7067r

[Bluestar]

1. And in other breaking news

Richard Nixon fired Archibald Cox, special prosecutor for Watergate, when Cox ordered Nixon to turn over the White House tapes.

The more things change the more they stay the same. We didn't learn our lessons with these Republican criminals back in the 1970's by putting them ALL in jail, now we are doomed to repeat it again.

[Rydz777]

2. So much slime

So much slime to investigate, six years of spin and cover-up, and so little time before the election campaign begins to suck up all the oxygen.

[karlrschneider]

3. It seems to me that anyone who wouldn't believe Gonzo would NOT

give a heads up to the guy who gave him his first real (and lucrative/powerful) job must be living in a dream world.

Those who say there's no honor among thieves have never been crooks themselves. Or they have and they're lying as usual.