Bush v. Gonzo? Alberto Gonzales To TPM: My Book Will 'Set The Record Straight'

[kpete]

Alberto Gonzales: My Book Will 'Set The Record Straight'
Ryan J. Reilly | November 20, 2010, 9:23AM

George W. Bush isn't the only official in the prior administration with writing chops. Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is also hard at work on a book that he told TPM will "set the record straight" on his public service and offer a "very candid, very honest" assessment of the people he worked with and decisions he made in the White House and at the Justice Department.

Gonzales also told me that he's in the midst of reading Bush's book Decision Points -- and while he's found his former boss' memoir "insightful," he remembers some events a bit differently than the former president.

"I would just simply urge your readers that he and I could observe the same thing and come away with completely different conclusions or memories of what we observed," said Gonzales. "So the fact that I might observe something or remember something differently than what he writes about in the book is just, I think, the human condition of people remembering something or observing something differently."

"I'm sure I'm going to write things in my book that he will remember differently, and that's just the way it is," Gonzales said. He declined to name any specific events where his recollection

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[ck4829]

1. I'm surprised he can remember enough of what happened to be able to write a book about it

Or will it just be full of "I can't recall this. I can't remember that. I can't recall remembering this."?

[lunatica]

9. The title will probably be "Things I Do Recall At This Time"

[pacalo]

16. +1.

[annabanana]

2. It will be interesting for US.. but ultimately inconsequential unless

it leads to an official "look back". . .

[Webster Green]

3. Let's see.......Gonzo + "very candid, very honest"

Nope, does not compute. :rofl:

[UTUSN]

4. Neh, like Shrub, his version will attempt revisionism about his lackey role

He will REVEAL that he was NOT a string puppet, that he fought tooth and nail, or else, what can he say, that he was an unabashed torture enhancer?!1 But that last territory is pretty much staked out by CHEENEE, and Shrub, too, so he turns out to be a lackey no matter which way he turns?!1

[UTUSN]

11. Plus, the ShrubCo rolladex went curiously blank in getting Beto a job with big law cronies n/t

[asjr]

5. What a waste of a few trees.

[DCKit]

6. Since W has had no negative consequences for admitting his war crimes...

will Speedy also fess up?

Should we wait until all of BushCo*'s admissions are in print before rounding them up, en masse?

[tanyev]

7. Cause nothing jogs your memory like the torture of reading a book by GWB.

[bobthedrummer]

8. K&R

:puke:

[The Backlash Cometh]

10. This is going to be good.

The lawyers always blame the client. The problem in this case, is that Gonzalez's opinions are very much on the record. He allowed himself to be used by Bush, IMHO.

[jtrockville]

12. Oh NOW he remembers? What an ass.

[rocktivity]

13. Mr. Gone-zales seems to be oblivous to the fact

that's he's about as credible as a wooden nickel -- and twice as forgetful.

:eyes:
rocktivity

[Ichingcarpenter]

14. "I don't Recall" vs I make the shit up as it goes

Send them both to prison to share a cell.

Put a video camera in it to make sure
That Homeland Security sees it all.

[malaise]

19. +1,000 n/t

[hobbit709]

15. Two proven liars each accusing the other.

and we're expected to believe either or both of them?

[Subdivisions]

17. So suddenly he recalls everything? n/t

[eppur_se_muova]

18. Oh, joy. A literary competition between Ralph Wiggum and Nelson Muntz.

Though I can't say which is which.