Get rid of that SOB, impeach. Asking him questions is just a waste of time.

I believe there is a very real danger that if Alberto Gonzalez spoke the truth under oath, he might actually burst into flame.

Can't anybody in Congress swat this man like a fly, either out of office or behind bars? He's playing a sniveler, but he's a chief architect of the torture-is-OK policies that have put this country's reputation in the toilet.

How much money are we spending in this endless series of hearings ti basically hear W's little toadie claim that he does not recall, he does not know all that with his self-satisfied smug smile?

Just the fact that he claims to know so little about what happens in the "Justice" Department should be cause for his instant dismissal. Hell, even Ken lay could not get away with that crap!

Someone needs to remind these $^*(@ that there is NO executive privilege after Bush resumes his status as private citizen.

ARGH!!!! MUST... NOT... STAB MYSELF!!!!

What's on second, I-Don't-Know's on third..."

So now the AG is blaming the investigation itself for his inability to know anything that goes on at the Justice Department! Is this a great country or what?

just like seems to have infested the remainder of this fascistic government.

Exactly when did incompetence become an adequate defence for corruption and criminality?

He has a very convenient lack of memory. Wait until we hear from someone who actually knows something, just to refresh his memory. Bet he will find a big hole to crawl into.

Impeach, baby. He's already perjured himself to congress, yall, and that's a felony. Get him by the nuts. Prosecute him if he resigns.

"I think I was justified in relying upon the senior leadership in the department ..."

He is asserting that the "DOJ senior leadership" made the list, then. In the exchange just proceeding this, several members of this "senior leadership" were eliminated as responsible for adding names to the list. So ... who are the other candidates within DOJ as qualifying as members of the "senior leadership?" Eliminate them all as responsibile and you now have evidence that the genesis of the list was external and that Gonzales was either lied to or lying.

Wexler's questions were fabulous - he cut to the core of the matter by making Gonzales admit nobody else above or below him who would have it in their job description to be responsible for these matters added Iglesias to the list (i.e. Justice dept. people or President/Vice President), leaving only a "mystery" person that he is protecting by lying or "not recalling". Therefore, whatever the real identity of the person, this person should not be in charge of firing US Attorneys. This fact alone demands that Gonzales be removed from office for dereliction of his duty as Attorney General and subverting "Justice" to "Politics".

Let's all start using this whenever possible:

"I'm not sure that I have any personal knowledge outside the documents ..."

It sounds official and clear and authoritative while it's nothing but blowing smoke.

Can we waterboard Gonzales to refresh his memory? The kind of gamesmanship he displayed is a disgrace.

...other than that, I am speechless...since David Smith said it all...

Gonzo says:

"And it has been frustrating to me to not be able to ask these kinds of questions."

what does he mean exactly? was he physically incapable of articulating these questions when the list was brought before him? was he not interested in finding out who recommended the individuals that he fired and for what reason? does it take a grand jury investigation to remind the Attorney General to take his job seriously?

that hasn't already been said.

But Wexler is my new hero for laying it out like that.

Wow, is Gonzales ever throwing out a lot of noise. It's a veritable wall of sound. Kudos to Wexler for staying on him, trying to cross-examine his lying ass, revealing the lie. The man is a disgrace, the administration's a travesty, the party that spawned it, an abomination. This is ridiculous.

Can you imagine how hard it'll be restoring credibility to the assorted institutions after the scorched earth policy the Bush League have done to the government in their two terms?

Hope they ordered enough shredders for 2008; the creeps are going to need them. Hope the interns wear clip-on ties when they're feeding the things all the reams of evidence.

I am a self-employed computer programmer. For 24 years I have been working on many complex projects. Without the benefit of a support staff, I can recollect or find answers to questions about work I did a decade ago, for such arcane things such as when did I change a computer program to set bit 7, rather than bit 6. If I can dredge up information like that, why can't the A.G. remember anything? After all, he has the benefit of a staff to take notes for him; I don't.

...appeared on a burning bush.

...appeared on 8 golden plates.

...appeared as cracks on a tortoise shell.

...were seen in chicken entrails.

...were seen holding hands in a dream by Kekule.

...were part of a secret coded message in a plastic ring at the bottom of a CrackerJack box.

Just trying to be helpful.

Wasn't Kyle Sampson Gonzalez's chief of staff? Gonzalez is getting dragged before Congress to explain how these prosecutors ended up on the termination list, a task he says was Sampson's, and he can't be bothered to talk to his own goddamn chief of staff about it?

It's all good that Mr. Gonzalez is facing review. He's getting grilled about his role in Attorneygate. He's definitely guilty of something, but of what nobody can surmise.

I read the transcripts of his testimony with a smile on my face, but I can't help but wonder if this is all a parade, a show, a facade. You have semi-powerful people asking questions of a man guarded by a truly powerful person--the President.

What this show boils down to is a one-liner fest: Which Senator can come up with the most pervasive line of questioning and retort with the slickest one-liner. Ultimately, nothing is accomplished, except fodder for the Quotable Quotes section of Reader's Digest.

He'll walk, unfortunately.

But, damn, those Senators sure have a handbag full of Old South-style one-liners. In fact, good ol' Samuel Clemens would've been proud.