by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
Video highlights of today's Senate hearing with Attorney General Gonzales is up at PoliticsTV and TPMmuckaker. Thorough liveblogging is up at Firedoglake and The Gun Toting Liberal. McJoan at DailyKos says Gonzales "decided that claiming incompetence is the way to...
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
As noted below, several Republican Senators have been not willing to provide political cover for Gonzales. And this afternoon, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called for Gonzales' resignation at the end of his questioning. Further, CNN White House reporter Suzanne Malveaux...
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., nailed Gonzales with a basic disconnect in his story, telling him, "You can't really say with certainty" that no one was purged for "improper reasons" if "you didn't know then, and you don't know today, how each of these people actually...
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
Asked what he would have done differently, Attorney General Gonzales said when delegating to Kyle Sampson the compilation of the prosecutor purge list, he would have told Sampson who exactly to consult with and what criteria he should use. A few minutes later, he...
by Bill Scher | Apr 19, 2007 | Blog
I can't keep up with all of Alberto Gonzales' "I don't recall"s, in defiance of Sen. Chuck Schumer's attempt at prevention. But he just made a couple of big ones. Under questioning by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Gonzales said he doesn't recall the origins of the...