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• Tuesday, May 15, 2007 02:38 PM

  Gonzales has those mad skillz to pay the billz

  There is some interesting back-up for this hypothesis of mine today, and I have added emphasis in the quotes below:

  > most people secretly wish to convey the truth while they are telling lies,

  > most people secretly know the truth while they are believing lies

  There is a wire story here at Salon regarding AG Gonzales:

  http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8P4VNR82.html

  that has this quote from him regarding who made the list -

  The attorney general, who has resisted calls for his own resignation, said he relied on McNulty's views more than another other adviser. Gonzales said he was reassured by his deputy as recently as March that the firings all were justified.

  "The one person I would care about would be the views of the deputy attorney general, because the deputy attorney general is the direct supervisor of the United States attorneys," Gonzales said.

  So, in what sounds like but cannot be semantically nailed down as a statement regarding who picked the attorneys to be fired:

  IF Mr. Gonzales cared about someone's input, which he might not, he would care about Mr. McNulty's input.

  Ta Dah!

  and for a bonus round, the same wire article closes with a quote from Mr. Tony Snow -

  "Paul also served this country very well and we certainly thank him for his service, but it certainly does not change the way in which we view the attorney general," Snow said. "Instead what we do is we thank Paul for his service."

  These guys are also going to write my textbook on the weaknesses of principle/agent legal theory for me if I ever decide to write one . . .

  —certifiedprepwn3d Read certifiedprepwn3d's other letters
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