Schumer: Gonzales has forgotten his oath

[sabra]

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/03/schumer_gonzale.html

Schumer: Gonzales has forgotten his oath

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has "either forgotten the oath he took to uphold the Constitution or doesn't understand that his duty to uphold the law is greater than his duty to protect the president," Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., just told reporters on Capitol Hill.

Schumer, who on Sunday called for Gonzales to resign, says today's reports of White House involvement in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys add to a "startling amount of information" that indicates "the only bad actors in this case were top officials at the White House and Justice Department, not the U.S. attorneys."

The senator -- No. 3 on the list of Democratic leaders in the Senate -- also called the firings of the prosecutors an "unprecedented breach of trust and abuse of power."

Schumer said that Kyle Sampson, a top aide to Gonzales who resigned Monday after acknowledging that he did not tell other Justice officials who testified to Congress about the extent of his communications with the White House, should not become "the next Scooter Libby -- the next fall guy."

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. Third option is he lied when he took the oath

and had no intention of following it.

[Richard Steele]

9. Bingo. nm

[saigon68]

12. He Kept his Oath to the Bush Criminals and is helping them LOOT amerika

They are filling both their pockets and their Swiss Bank accounts

[truthisfreedom]

13. Fourth option is that he had his fingers crossed.

Fifth is he penned a crafty signing statement.


And just what is bush doing with that carrot while molesting that young seniorita?

[cosmicdot]

16. ding

Gonzales hasn't forgotten anything

surely our Hill of Plutocrats are familiar with the Bu$h years in Texas ... don't they google?

"So far, Bush has avoided all efforts to put him under oath. In 1996, his attorney, Al Gonzales, was able to keep his client from being selected for jury duty in a drunken driving case here in Travis County."

"Just as he did in 1996, Gonzales, who is now the White House general counsel, will do all he can to keep Bush out of situations in which he must swear to tell the truth."
http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/story?oid=oid%3A80364

http://www.democraticunderground.com/articles/06/02/18_gravedigger.html

http://archive.democrats.com/view.cfm?id=1292

http://www.hereinreality.com/funeralgate.htm

(I think the company involved was the same one which got a post-Katrina contract; and, the man Cheney shot)

[liberal N proud]

2. The "Oath" means nothing to the bu$h regime and their thugs

[fooj]

3. Ed Henry says no laws were broken.

How is that true?

[rodeodance]

5. Sen Deminichi---used his influence---ethical problems.

[rodeodance]

4. I can only hope that Schumer stays on top of this issue.

[maddezmom]

6. K&R

[maddezmom]

8. even that oaf Sensenbrenner is throwing him under the bus

Rep. James Sensenbrenner of Wisconsin, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee, called the Justice Department's management dysfunctional for sending Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General Will Moschella to testify before the panel last week "without knowing all the facts."

"They're going to have to come up with some answers," Sensenbrenner said Tuesday in an interview with The Associated Press. "If they don't, they're going to lose everyone's confidence."

"What I'd like to hear is the truth," he said, complaining about the Justice Department's different explanations for the dismissals. If that record is not corrected, Sensenbrenner said, "then the Justice Department and the attorney general himself are going to die by a thousand cuts."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070313/ap_on_go_co/congress_prosecutors;_ylt=AkTHon5Ug08NQy93fOVDLpCyFz4D

[yardwork]

7. Gonzales took an oath to a higher power - Mammon

[RedCloud]

10. keep this simple to sway the voters.

Just say a den of liars and thieves. Right wing base will hear it. They do not tolerate them there deceivers.

[spanone]

11. We've know of Gonzos' disdain of law for years.

[opihimoimoi]

14. Word of the Day ......these days....NEXT?

It just goes ON and ON....the Bush cart has no wheels.....

[blossomstar]

15. Amen to that, they've been off a good while now... next!

[ItsTheMediaStupid]

17. This entire administration took the oath with their fingers crossed

Meanwhile, Fox Noise reports that if you perjure yourself with your fingers crossed, it doesn't count...

[Giant Robot]

18. No

I'm quite sure he remembers the blood oath he swore to the Bush administration.

[Solly Mack]

19. LMAO. He never cared about the oath

He didn't forget...it didn't even register with him.