Didn't Gonzalez say something similar once about allowing dissenting voices to speak, as long as they didn't expect anyone to care what they said? Something like that?

Why is this tyranny-enabling jackal still out of prison?

The American people don't care enough to demand punishment so once again our country is held hostage by the minority.

Which one? Bush? Obama?

Bush, Gonzales et alles have at least been rendered relatively harmless. They can go to jail later. Obama seems uninterested in undoing their work, and he's the only one that matters. Don't be distracted by flies.

I have to say I agree.

The Bushies made sure to get legal opinions that would say what they were doing was legal. Of course, they made sure the right people wrote the opinions so they'd get the results they wanted. By keeping things secret they didn't even have to worry about the opinions being challenged.

If that methodology successfully prevents prosecution of Bush administration officials then there is no limit to Presidential power.

I see that you have managed to extricate your head from Palin's Panties.

Congratulations, however, I shall reserve judgement until a month has passed.

The stink should be gone by then.

Unless you go panty diving again.

Gonzo was declaring Bush the dictator and DOJ a house pest. That's not "striking." It's saying the United States is de jure a tyranny.

By presenting Comey and Goldsmith as conceding authority to Bush here you do what Scott Shane and David Johnston did in a New York Times piece on the issue of torture: do Bush/Cheney's dirty laundry for them. Their piece was taken apart by Scott Horton in a 6/9/09 No Comment blog titled "Cheney, the DOJ, and Torture: Two Takes." Horton laid the whitewash bare.

You might want to look at it, Alex. This is not small potatoes. If it's a yawn, that's only because we've long known Gonzales was unfit to serve as White House Counsel let alone Attorney General. Yet there he was. You've got here another indication of what his mindset was.

Don't tone it down. It's a mark of what we were for eight years and will continue to be until we put such things to a stop. That requires candor, not bowdlerisms.

You write that the WH agreed to DOJ changes, but in the meantime, Bush recertified the program himself. Did he make the changes or not? It would appear so, because later you say Comey and others agreed that Bush was within the law. Yet he refused to recertify. I don't understand.

Also, was it legal for Bush to recertify it himself?

I'm glad the proud owner of an MBA gets to overrule the supposedly most knowledgable lawyers in the country on what is or isn't legal by virtue of his office. Ya know, the same guy who called the Constitution "just a piece of paper."

Absolute contempt for the law. That is the defining characteristic of the Bush administration.

Gonzalez was right because he keenly ascertained who had all the power in the American Govt and of course it was Bush & Cheny and not the Dept.of Justice or anyone else! Gonzalez has continuously been proven right in this assertion because no one,not the US Congress nor the Senate has held the Bush Regime liable for any of its many heinous "war crimes" and "treasonous" crimes against the US Constitution.

Gonzalez was once again proven to be right in the overriding "Dictatorial" power of the White House,after the last election,when new president Barrack Obama also completely "refused" to hold the Bush Regime liable for any of their long list of murderous crimes!!! Then again who can really blame Obama for wanting to maintain the same legal invulnerability and infalability that Bush & Cheney enjoyed?

and it should be declared a threat to freedom, the Constitution, and the rule of law.

When Nixon, referring to himself, said "When the president does it, it's not illegal," he paved the way for Bush's pissing on the Constitution.

Gonzales, the marionette sitting on Bush's knee, extends the absolution to himself. It's only fair, of course, given he has no mind of his own.

Making a case for "no mind" is quite simple, when you consider that Alberto has "no recollection" of any important event that has ever occured in his life and career.

With an alleged memory such as he claims, it's a wonder he can find his way home.

With an alleged memory such as he claims, it's a wonder he can find his way home.

We could help little Al with that...

When "home" is an 8x10 locked concrete cage, it's difficult for even an automaton like little Al to get lost.

Trade Federation Commanders blockading Naboo: Is it legal?

Emperor to be and Sith Palantine: I will make it legal.

We've seen this show before. All we have to do is wait for the emperor to sweep away the last remnants of the old Republic....