White House Defends Gonzales Against Allegations He Misled Congress

[sabra]

Source: AP

WASHINGTON - The White House is defending the administration's embattled attorney general against allegations he misled Congress.

Senate Democrats are calling for a perjury investigation, claiming Alberto Gonzales has, "at a minimum," provided "half-truths and misleading statements" in testimony to Congress, most recently over secret surveillance. Four Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee are asking the solicitor general to appoint a special counsel to investigate.

The White House is defiantly standing behind Gonzales on the perjury matter. Press Secretary Tony Snow yesterday flatly denied there's any contradiction between what Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee this week and comments by FBI Director Robert Mueller. Gonzales insisted that the president's secret wiretapping program was not the topic of a hospital room dispute between administration officials. Mueller says it was.

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[NewJeffCT]

1. The longer Gonzo holds out

The longer it takes for the House & Senate to turns their eyes to Bush & Cheney.

Just like Rummy was the fall guy for over two years regarding Iraq, but Bush kept him on because people could focus their anger at Rumsfeld instead of Bush.

[Rude Horner]

5. Excellent point

Great observation. I believe you're right.

[maddezmom]

2. everyone but Gonzales is lying

:sarcasm:

Negroponte's memo, Mueller' testimony, Comey's testimony, etc

[gratuitous]

3. Here's how it works, Tony

Being a former journalist, even for Fox, I would think you'd know this by now, but mine is not to wonder about the gaps in your education, merely to fill them:

If Person A says P and Person B says Not P, that's a contradiction. Person A and Person B disagree about whether it is P or Not P, two mutually exclusive alternatives. Whether, in truth, the situation is P or Not P is immaterial; the disagreement amounts to a contradiction.

You're welcome.

[SpiralHawk]

4. "Lying is what we do." - Tony Snowjob and Homeland Republicons

"Don't condemn us just for being who we are. We are republicons and we have a right to lie."

- Tony Snowjob and Homeland Republicons

[rodeodance]

6. guess tony does not like these headlines:

http://www.democracynow.org/index.pl
Headlines for July 27, 2007

- Senators Call for Gonzales Perjury Probe
- FBI Director Contradicts Gonzales Account of Meeting
- Rove, Bush Aide Subpoenaed on Attorney Testimony
- 60 Killed in Iraq Violence
- Ex-Contractor: Foreign Workers Abused at US Embassy
- Parents of Dead Soldier Sue U.S. for Negligence

[Supersedeas]

7. Blank defiance with no further explanation is apparently good enough

[momster]

8. Favorite Snowism

The quote went something like..."Of course he's not lying but I can't tell you the truth because of (cue heavenly choir) National Security!" So they can't tell little truths because they lead to bigger truths so they tell lies, little, medium and Big. Can a Big Lie be believed when they admit they are lying for our own good? My head hurts....

[HuffleClaw]

9. the tip of the iceberg and the white house knows it

and are scared stiff of it. if ever there was a 'smoking gun' this is it.

[gulliver]

10. The press sees it as a contradiction, and they are not ...

... quoting Gonzales or Mueller verbatim. Gonzo has outsmarted himself. The deceptive parsing isn't reaching the public, just the straighforward interpretation of what the two men said. The public will feel lied to when they find out that Mueller was telling the truth. No matter what cute little evasion Gonzales uses to skirt perjury charges. Then the next question. Even if he didn't commit perjury, why was Gonzales deliberately misleading the Congress?