Gonzales Helped Bush Hide His Drunk Driving Conviction

[marmar]

from Raw Story, via AlterNet's PEEK:


Gonzales Helped Bush Hide His Drunk Driving Conviction

Posted by Guest Blogger at 6:46 AM on July 30, 2007.



Nick Juliano: The Washington Post explores Gonzales' "decades of dishonesty", and explores his long relationship as Bush's human shield.

This post, written by Nick Juliano, originally appeared on Raw Story

Alberto Gonzales's difficult relationship with the truth has led to calls for a special prosecutor to investigate claims that the attorney general perjured himself during Senate testimony. But as the Washington Post points out Monday, Gonzales and honesty have had a shaky relationship stretching back more than a decade.

"Whether Gonzales has deliberately told untruths or is merely hampered by his memory has been the subject of intense debate among members of Congress, legal scholars and others who have watched him over the years," report the Post's Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein. "Some regard his verbal difficulties as a strategic ploy on behalf of a president to whom he owes his career; others see a public official overwhelmed by the magnitude of his responsibilities."

Gonzales's apparent willingness to dissemble in order to protect himself or President Bush stretches back to at least 1996, when he intervened to prevent then-Gov. Bush from serving jury duty in Texas, the Post notes. Not until its second-to-last paragraph, however, does the Post article remind readers that by not serving jury duty in the drunken driving case Bush was able to keep his own drunken driving conviction a secret for several more years.

"He's a slippery fellow, and I think so intentionally," University of Texas public affairs professor Richard L. Schott told the Post. "He's trying to keep the president's secrets and to be a team player, even if it means prevaricating or forgetting convenient things."

Questions about Gonzales willingness to protect Bush in relation to the drunken driving case were first raised last year by Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff. If Bush had served on the jury he would have had to reveal his own past conviction, but Gonzales convinced the defense attorney to ask that Bush be kept from the jury on the grounds that he may be called on to pardon the defendant. ......(more)

The complete piece is at: http://www.alternet.org/blogs/peek/58281/

[librechik]

1. Oh great. MSM finally "gets" what we've been screaming about since 2000

asswipes.

[bdamomma]

2. it's all about being loyal to this sleazy criminal *.

[Drum]

3. H. Meirs is also a co-conspirator in the Bury-Bush's-Past operation.

:mad:

These items, if kept in the public's view again, may get traction this time around....

[Virginia Dare]

6. Yep, Miers and Gonzo are the legal gate keepers..

and Rove holds the key. Getting those assholes on record is vital.

[havocmom]

4. Need another R to get this where the casual reader/new ally can find it fast

We need to get this out there as fodder for water-cooler chat across America.

[zabet]

5. You got it! #5 n/t

[bunny planet]

7. Wow, the lame street media finally reports on something we've all known for

quite some time. Late enough to practically have the information be useless.
:smoke:

[mzmolly]

8. Bush prefers "loyalty" over experience

for a reason.

[Old and In the Way]

9. A mutually enabling, socially dysfunctional couple.

What Gonzales knows about Bush could destroy the boy-king. I imagine he's got himself well protected with plenty of evidentiary insurance.