FBI Chief's Testimony Fans the Flames On Gonzo's Pants
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Wally
7:54 AM
The director of the FBI offered testimony Thursday that sharply conflicted with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales's sworn statements about a 2004 confrontation in which top Justice Department officials threatened to resign over a secret intelligence operation.
The director, Robert Mueller III, told the House Judiciary Committee that the confrontation was about the National Security Agency's counterterrorist eavesdropping program, describing it as "an NSA program that has been much discussed." His testimony was a serious blow to Gonzales, who insisted at a Senate hearing on Tuesday that there were no disagreements inside the Bush administration about the program at the time of those discussions or at any other time.
The director's remarks were especially significant because Mueller is the Justice Department's chief law enforcement official. He also played a crucial role in the 2004 dispute over the program, intervening with President George W. Bush to help deal with the threat of mass resignations that grew out of a day of emergency meetings at the White House and at the hospital bedside of John Ashcroft, who was then attorney general. Of course the Republicans - having spent 6 years and 70 million dollars investigating President Clinton's penis and Hillary's underwear drawer, and then another 6 years looking the other way while the Bush administration lied us into wars, looted the treasury, and dismantled our basic civil rights - cried foul, saying those wild-eyed vengeful crazy liberal Democrats (like Arlen Specter, for example) are on a witch hunt over nothing. It seems to me that the Republicans think more highly of Clinton's sperm than of American soldiers, since they were decidedly more upset by the spilling of that on a blue dress than by the spilling of blood on Iraqi soil. But I digress. "What we are witnessing is an out-of-control Congress which spends time calling for special prosecutors, starting investigations, issuing subpoenas and generally just trying to settle scores," said Scott Stanzel, a White House spokesman. "All the while they fail to pass appropriations bills and important issues like immigration reform, energy and other problems go unanswered." Hey Scott, that immigration reform bill to which you refer - remind me again who blocked that one. Why was it that the immigration reform bill didn't pass? Oh yeah, I remember. The Republicans blocked it. Go whine at them, not us.
As for the subpoenas and investigations, maybe if the Republicans in Congress had been doing their job for the past 6 years instead of letting the Bush administration run roughshod over the Constitution, the Democrats wouldn't be so busy trying to clean up your mess. The GOP is supposed to be the "tough on crime" party. Unless, of course, they are the ones guilty of committing the crime.
GOP = Good Old-fashioned Perjury
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