Biden to Gonzales: "I love you, but you're not very candid so far." WTF?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

Gonzales, below, practices the "Bush Smirk" as he pretends "not to remember."



http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=1802&e=1&u=/washpost/20050107/ts_washpost/a54607_2005jan6

But under often tough questioning from Democrats and some Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee (news - web sites), Gonzales said he could not recall key details of his involvement in the production of an August 2002 memo that narrowly defined the tactics that constitute torture. He also declined repeated invitations to repudiate a past administration assertion that the president has the authority to ignore anti-torture statutes on national security grounds.

Gonzales testified that while he disagreed with portions of the Justice Department memo, he could not recall whether he conveyed those objections to other government lawyers at the time. He said he did not quarrel with its general findings.

But many Democrats and at least one Republican argued that Gonzales had participated in formulating policy that laid the foundation for the abuse scandals in Afghanistan (news - web sites), Iraq and Cuba, which have generated global outrage. Gonzales declined to answer many questions and said he could not recall details in relation to many others, prompting complaints from some Democrats on the committee.

"We're looking for you, when we ask you questions, to give us an answer, which you haven't done yet," Sen. Joseph R. Biden (news, bio, voting record) Jr. (D-Del.) told Gonzales. "I love you, but you're not very candid so far."

[emulatorloo]

1. Perhaps Biden loves Gonzales' "inspiring personal story (tm)" but sees

through his BS non-answers.

Biden was apparently very tough on him. . .

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[NYCGirl]

3. Here's the full transcript of Biden posted on another thread by

DUer John Locke:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x1474397#1474678

The items you question are taken out of context.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

4. Thanks for the clarification.

...because what I copied and pasted here is the sum total of the Biden references in the article I link to.

I guess we can thank Dan Eggen and R. Jeffrey Smith, Washington Post Staff Writers, for the "out of context context."

:toast:

[atommom]

5. That smirk scares me. Does it mean he got the Bush lobotomy?

Reminds me, actually, of how the Joker left all of his victims wearing an evil grin.

[xultar]

6. Nope, just IV kool-aid treatments. Once that replaces your blood

your dead but not quite all the way.