Is Gonzales’ Perjury a Red Herring to Keep Focus off Bush’s Impeachable FISA Violations?

[babylonsister]

http://www.pensitoreview.com/2007/07/26/is-gonzales-perjury-an-impeachment-red-herring/

Is Gonzales’ Perjury a Red Herring to Keep Focus off Bush’s Impeachable FISA Violations?
Posted by Jon Ponder | Jul. 26, 2007, 8:12 am

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In 1975, Mitchell was found guilty of perjury, obstruction of justice and conspiracy and sentenced to 30 months in prison.

The fact that Gonzales is unconcerned about facing a fate similar to Mitchell’s may itself be circumstantial evidence of a continuing conspiracy to obstruct justice at the White House.

Earlier this year, Gonzales was said to have spent two weeks rehearsing for the appearance before the Senate in which he used phrases like “I don’t recall” dozens of times. Even on Tuesday, his responses were obviously coached and practiced so as to obfuscate … something. He obviously has something to hide. What is it?

At the heart of his matter is a real criminal enterprise to which Pres. Bush has publicly, even proudly, confessed, and for which constitutional scholars say there are solid grounds for impeachment.

In 2005, the New York Times reported that there had been an ongoing scheme by the Bush administration to violate the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). After the leak to the New York Times, the president admitted he had repeatedly violated FISA by eavesdropping on U.S. citizens, which is illegal. To give the program an air of legitimacy, the White House political office spun it as the “terrorist surveillance program” (TSP).

Elizabeth Holzman, who served in the Congress during Watergate, writing in the journal Foreign Policy, said that the president’s repeated violations of FISA are actionable:

The strongest legal argument for impeachment—because it is based on the Watergate precedent—arises out of the fact that President Bush refused for years to seek court approval required under the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act for a special wiretapping program in the United States. After revelations that President Nixon illegally wiretapped journalists and White House staffers, Congress enacted FISA to prevent future such abuses, making them a federal crime. Illegal wiretapping was one of the grounds for articles of impeachment against Nixon.

Perhaps the reason Gonzales is so relaxed about perjuring himself is that he is doing what he has been instructed to do: Keep the attention of Congress and the American public on himself as a dodge to to deflect interest away from Pres. Bush’s real impeachable offenses — his repeated violations of the surveillance act.

If so, there is a strong likelihood that Gonzales’ silence has been bought — as Scooter Libby’s was — with the foreknowledge that Bush will pardon him before he spends a minute in jail.

[babylonsister]

1. Well, is it? nt

[leftofthedial]

2. they can bleed off guilty underlings from here until eternity

(or until pardon time)

the whole thing is a big distraction from the fact that this is no longer a democratic republic, but an oligarchy.

[Disturbed]

3. The Gonzo situation leads directly to Busholini.

The Illegal Spying Program is what Gonzo was trying to get Asscroft to sign off on after Comey, the acting AG refused to do. Comey stated that the Illegal Spying continued for "a few weeks" after the hospital visit. This is the crux of it. Also, Comey testified that Mrs. Asscroft got a direct phone call from Busholini to allow the visit. If Mrs. Asscroft admits this happened Busholini was part of a Criminal Conspiracy to commit an Illegal Act. The bottom line question: Will the Congress place her on the stand to testify Under Oath to this event?