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We don’t really have any comment on the Federal Prosecutor guy charged with actually trying to fuck a five-year-old girl. Said the assistant U.S. attorney from Florida: “I’ve done it plenty.” [Above The Law]
As Attorney General Gonzales faces increasingly shrill cries for his resignation, and now threats of impeachment, perhaps we ought to take a minute to hear from the man himself. A week and a half ago, he addressed Department of Justice employees via “J TV,” DoJ’s internal tv station, to assure them that he will never, ever, ever leave them, and that he’s fuckin’ innocent. A Justice Employee sent us the speech this weekend, and it’s an entertaining little document of self-delusion.
The White House said today it would not comply with congressional subpoenas for documents and testimony relating to the firings of federal prosecutors last year, setting up a potential constitutional confrontation over its claim of executive privilege.
And what did we learn from Monica Goodling’s testimony before Congress today? MORE »
We tried to get a screencap of Schumer or Feinstein talking about Gonzales from CNN’s Pipeline thing but by the time we got it loaded up they’d finished. So here is a turtle fighting a cat. MORE »
A deputy Attorney General announced he’s stepping down today, as Alberto Gonzales continued to sit in his office all day cackling and lighting cigars with letters of resignation. MORE »
Alberto Gonzales went before congress again today to say pretty much the exact same things he said before, but this time about the ninth/first fired attorney general. Gonzales continues to do a bang-up job of demonstrating the administration’s contempt for congress in general, so expect him to hang on to his job for another year. MORE »
The White House deleted a couple million emails that may or may not be related to their mysterious firing of a buncha federal prosecutors. The emails — and here’s the tricky bit — were sent from private RNC-sponsored non-government accounts, which is kinda-sorta illegal. But hey, sometimes you accidentally subvert the Democratic process when you’re trying oh-so-hard to follow the law as you purposefully misunderstand it. MORE »
According to the Post, Al Gonzales — who fired approximately 400 united states attorneys for not suppressing black voters with enough gusto — wasn’t too careful with the ones he didn’t fire either. Six of them spent a great deal of their time in Washington, doing odd jobs around the Gonzales house, making copies at the Justice Department, and generally not prosecutin’ back home in the districts they’re supposed to be in charge of. MORE »
* Easter holiday for President Bush and Congress begins with volley of zingers over Iraq war funding bill. [WP, NYT]
* Mitt Romney’s cult is just naturally good at raising money, knocking on doors in short sleeved dress shirts. [WP, WP, NYT]
* McCain’s merry band of psychos, not so much. [NYT]
* FCC: yes, it still blows. [WP]
* Gonzales aide Monica Goodling refuses to answer the question of what questions she refuses to answer. [WP, NYT]
* Loud-mouth truck-stop managers really love readin’ bout politiks on the internets. [WSJ]
