Blago's got nothing on this dude

[deminks]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/03/gonzales-on-his-legacy-so_n_163753.html


Gonzales On His Legacy: "So Many People Are Focused On The Little Negatives"

In an interview with Campbell Brown on CNN Tuesday, former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tried to bolster his legacy by pointing out the many accomplishments of his tenure and arguing that "so many people are focused on the little negatives that occurred." But as Brown quickly pointed out, these were far more than "little negatives":

From the transcript:

BROWN: These were not little negatives. And we can go through the list, but let's talk about - let's start by talking about how politicized the Justice Department became. An inspector general found that. There is nothing partisan about that. Your office fired nine U.S. attorneys for political reasons. There has been no disagreement about that. I mean, how could you let that happen?


GONZALES: Campbell, Campbell, Campbell. I disagree with that. You said that nine U.S. attorneys were fired for partisan political reasons. That's not what the report said. Quite the opposite. The report clearly found that there were performance related reasons for the removal of most of these U.S. attorneys and with respect to the remainder, they didn't have enough information to draw definite conclusions. Now I clearly will acknowledge that there were political considerations taken with respect to the hiring decisions made by some of the staff within the Department of Justice. It's something that I condemn and it shouldn't have happened.

[DCKit]

1. Sgt. Shultz was funny in that bit, Fredo's not. You sad, sad, little excuse for a (hu)man. n/t

[rurallib]

2. so - whoa - does Mr. Campbell Brown allow that stuff?

[tavalon]

3. Now he's calling himself a "little negative"

You may be small in stature but you're a big negative, trust me.