It's offical - Gonzales is the Consigliere for the Bush Nazi Government

[benburch]

"The President Is My Client"

How much more do you need to hear?

[LSparkle]

1. Wait a minute ... before or after he became A.G.?

[benburch]

2. I understood present tense. nt

[FreedomAngel82]

18. Right

He said "is."

[Swamp Rat]

6. watch this:

GONZALES: "... the client here is the President of the United States..."

http://www.canofun.com/blog/videos/2006/GonzalesPresidentIsMyClientFeb606.asx

[Lars39]

10. Thanks, Swamp Rat. Absolutely jaw-dropping. eom

[LSparkle]

15. Unfuckingbelievable

I thought the A.g. was supposed to represent THE PEOPLE of the U.S., not the Pretzeldent. (WH counsel may correctly say the Asshat is his client, but not the A.G.)

[Lars39]

16. That's the way I thought it worked,too.

[FreedomAngel82]

19. But you're forgetting

This is Bush's Amerika.

[Swamp Rat]

3. I just saw that

:eyes:

[liveoaktx]

4. VIDEO

Very specific

[annabanana]

5. disgraceful... impossible...

[KittyWampus]

7. Thought that was James Baker. Gonzales has a fair piece to go

before filling those vile shoes.

[Trevelyan]

8. Still Worse and Worse

Government Gangsterism at Work

By Ted Rall, AlterNet
January 31, 2002

Unbridled legal hypocrisy is a recurring theme of the ideologically impoverished Bush imperium. When it suits their immediate aims, the Bushies wield the law like a club. But when the law proves inconvenient they chuck it out the window like a gum wrapper.

We've seen this schizy lurching between law-and-order conservatism and anarchic retro-Tricky Dicky Nixonism ever since November 2000, when the same campaign that sued under Florida's election laws to stop that state's ballot recount resorted to hired thugs and back-room deals when it became obvious that they were going to lose.

Born illegitimately of intimidation, this administration is waging its New War on Terror with the same graceless style. Before September 11, it used international organizations and legal strictures to impose economic sanctions on Afghanistan. As the Trade Center towers burned and Bush's polls soared, the last vestige of respect for law disappeared. Bush dropped bombs without declaring war, without bothering to formally request that the Taliban extradite Osama bin Laden, and without presenting a smidgen of proof that either the Afghan government or bin Laden had anything to do with the attacks on New York and Washington. "You're either with us or against us," Bush said, but "us" meant "me."

During the last few months, at least 6,000 people have vanished off the streets of the United States. Kidnapped by government agents, they have no idea when – or if – they will be released from prison. The Bushies say these people overstayed their visas, that they have links to Al Qaeda, that they don't wash their hands after using the toilet, that America is safer because they're behind bars.

CONTINUED...

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=12318

[tinfoilinfor2005]

20. Incredible. This article should be posted on a separate thread.

Is the author the same guy as the cartoonist?

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

9. I considered it official when he swept Bush's DUI under the carpet.

Tattoo was Junior's Consigliere long before he joined him on Fantasy Island. Once a corrupt little fuck, ALWAYS a corrupt little fuck.

Gonzales: Did He Help Bush Keep His DUI Quiet?



Jan. 31 issue - Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales's most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996. The judge and other lawyers in the case last week disputed a written account of the matter provided by Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's a complete misrepresentation," said David Wahlberg, lawyer for the dancer, about Gonzales's account.

Bush's summons to serve as a juror in the drunken-driving case was, in retrospect, a fateful moment in his political career: by getting excused from jury duty he was able to avoid questions that would have required him to disclose his own 1976 arrest and conviction for driving under the influence of alcohol (DUI) in Kennebunkport, Maine—an incident that didn't become public until the closing days of the 2000 campaign. (Bush, who had publicly declared his willingness to serve, had left blank on his jury questionnaire whether he had ever been "accused" in a criminal case.) Asked by Sen. Patrick Leahy to describe "in detail" the only court appearance he ever made on behalf of Bush, Gonzales—who was then chief counsel to the Texas governor—wrote that he had accompanied Bush the day he went to court "prepared to serve on a jury." While there, Gonzales wrote, he "observed" the defense lawyer make a motion to strike Bush from the jury panel "to which the prosecutor did not object." Asked by the judge whether he had "any views on this," Gonzales recalled, he said he did not.

In separate interviews, Crain—along with Wahlberg and prosecutor John Lastovica—told NEWSWEEK that, before the case began, Gonzales asked to have an off-the-record conference in the judge's chambers. Gonzales then asked Crain to "consider" striking Bush from the jury, making the novel "conflict of interest" argument that the Texas governor might one day be asked to pardon the defendant (who worked at an Austin nightclub called Sugar's), the judge said. "He raised the issue," Crain said. Crain said he found Gonzales's argument surprising, since it was "extremely unlikely" that a drunken-driving conviction would ever lead to a pardon petition to Bush. But "out of deference" to the governor, Crain said, the other lawyers went along. Wahlberg said he agreed to make the motion striking Bush because he didn't want the hard-line governor on his jury anyway. But there was little doubt among the participants as to what was going on. "In public, they were making a big show of how he was prepared to serve," said Crain. "In the back room, they were trying to get him off."

Gonzales last week refused to waver. "Judge Gonzales has no recollection of requesting a meeting in chambers," a senior White House official said, adding that while Gonzales did recall that Bush's potential conflict was "discussed," he never "requested" that Bush be excused. "His answer to the Senate's question is accurate," the official said.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857224/site/newsweek/

[fooj]

11. This guy is a purchased shill.

He is a traitor to this country.

Peace.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

12. The A.G. position was a reward for "past services rendered"...

...and I'll bet we'll never know the full extent of those services.

[benburch]

14. Some of them likely involved kneepads. nt

[Disturbed]

13. Gonzo should be required to resign.

He has declared himself to be in conflict of interest. Will Congress demand that he resign forthwith?

[FreedomAngel82]

17. Uh no he isn't

[benburch]

22. Care to elaborate on that reply? nt

[SPKrazy]

21. Rove is the consigliere

Gonzalez is a smirking sociopath, the torture author.