Cheney On Whether He Ordered Hospital Visit To Ashcroft: I Have ‘No Recollection’

[kpete]

Cheney On Whether He Ordered Hospital Visit To Ashcroft: I Have ‘No Recollection’
On Sunday, Josh Marshall pointed out that the New York Times editorial on the potential need to impeach Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said that “Vice President Dick Cheney sent Mr. Gonzales and another official to Mr. Ashcroft’s hospital room to get him to approve the wiretapping.” As Marshall noted, before the editorial, Cheney’s involvement in the incident had never been established.

Today on CNN, in a preview of his interview with the Vice President tonight, Larry King said he asked Cheney about the allegation. “I asked the Vice President about that and the story that he was the one that asked him to go,” said King. “And he said he had no recollection.”

“He did not want to deal with specifics, which tells me, they’re looking at trouble,” King added. “If you don’t want to deal with specifics…I think you’re looking at trouble and you’re looking the other way if you’re denying it.”

VIDEO & MORE AT:
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/31/cheney-ashcroft-hospital/

[Horse with no Name]

1. It's the only answer they have

and why people don't stand up in anger over what is supposed to be the "best of the best" and "smartest of the smartest" who conveniently NEVER remember ANYTHING, I just don't know.

[Atman]

2. IOW, "Yes."

What a fucking liar. I'm surprised these people remember their own names.

.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. The administration as a whole

has a frightening amnesia problem.

[TahitiNut]

6. Selective amnesia ... organized crime's favorite concealment

:shrug:

[Harry Monroe]

24. I believe it's called "Omerta"

[formercia]

25. That's what the Mafia says

It's their standard line.

I don't recall.

I have no recollection.

...

[malaise]

4. WTF do these goons remember?

:puke: :puke:

[napi21]

12. When they do answer a question, they get caught in a lie!

Don't you remember when Cheney was reminded that he connected Iraq & al Qaida and he said "I never said that!" The media ran his denial clip and then ran several clips from previous taped interviews where he said EXACTLY that!

Maybe they've learned to just forget everything 'cause those damn video tapes keep showing up to prove their lies!

[janx]

5. Does Dick Cheney honestly think that people are stupid

enough to believe that he would not recall such a thing?

[TahitiNut]

7. He became wealthy and powerful based on such a belief. Yep.

Ubetcha.

[Horse with no Name]

8. It isn't what you know

it's what you can prove.

[HereSince1628]

9. Yes, he knows GOP voters are

[davidwparker]

10. That means he did order it.

[janx]

11. As Larry King points out. Yep. n/t

[helderheid]

13. Error: You've already recommended that thread.

[rodeodance]

18. i got the same message when I tried.

[helderheid]

19. :D

[gratuitous]

14. Such a shoddy memory

You wonder how Cheney remembers which Senators he should tell to go fuck themselves, or which of his friends to shoot in the face.

[glitch]

15. Incompetent should retire then. nt

[rodeodance]

16. might have know we'd end up in the Secret house of Cheney.

[cui bono]

17. They should be told that everytime they answer with "I don't recall"

or some equivalent they will be presumed to be saying "yes, I did it".

[usregimechange]

20. Bingo

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

21. Doesn't recall anything - yet he knows enough to call it a "witch hunt"

"It's a witch hunt, but I don't know anything about anything"

[kestrel91316]

22. Ah, the Reagan Excuse. DO ALL of these jackasses have advanced

Alzheimer's??? It's starting to sound more and more like it.

We are WAAAYYYYY past "pitchforks and torches" time.

[The Backlash Cometh]

23. Does he remember the meeting with the Dem leaders and how he

controlled the agenda there?

[fiore280]

26. It is Tragic

that he is too much of a liar to answer that one. But in another way, it's hilarious. I can't be outraged by Cheney, wouldn't be surprised if he ate babies. So to see him be forced to give a WEAK answer to the question is MAGNIFICENT. Just a stinking pile of Bush Administration.

[book_worm]

27. This entire administration needs to be checked for Alzheimers because

nobody remembers anything.

[Aviation Pro]

28. What's the matter....

...Asshole? Can't say a simple "no?" Quite the fuckface asswipe you are, Jerkoff. I hope Leahy gets to say, "Go fuck yourself," when you're led off in shackles, Soon-To-Be-Someone's-Bitch.

[GETPLANING]

29. Give me five minutes

alone with that fuck and he will be remembering things he really had forgotten.

[GETPLANING]

30. What a liar

There is something seriously wrong with Mr. Cheney. Any human being would recoil in horror at the mere suggestion that they had, or ordered someone else, to strong-arm someone in the hospital and in pain to do something you know they do not want to do. And yet he sits there calmly saying he can’t recall. Add to that the obvious and very telling body language and what you get is the perfect portrait of a sociopath.

[SalmonChantedEvening]

31. Repeat after me Larry:

NOTHING goes on in this administration, NOT ONE THING, that Deadeye Dick does not know of, sanction, or order. NOTHING.

Again. Once more. And again.

[ProgressiveFool]

32. LOL I read that for a second as "have no reflection" ... Duh, he's a vampire! /nt

[spanone]

33. how about a lil' ol' waterboarding to refresh that ailing memory, dick?

recollect this