Fredo’s Last Day == BY Scott Horton == PLUS Gonzo's Farewell Address

[L. Coyote]

The departure ceremony was an affront to reason.
DON'T watch this video, it is too gonzo:

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales Farewell Address
http://c-span.org/videoarchives.asp?CatCodePairs=,&ArchiveDays=100
Today, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales delivers a farewell address to Justice Department employees in Washington. He leaves the office amid several controversies and allegations of perjury before Congress. Solicitor Gen. Paul Clement will serve as acting attorney general starting next week.
9/14/2007: WASHINGTON, DC: 1 hr. 19 min.

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Fredo’s Last Day
BY Scott Hort - Sept. 14, 2007
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2007/09/hbc-90001218


Alberto Gonzales spends his last day in the office as Attorney General today. On Monday, Paul Clement assumes his duties as Acting Attorney General. As the Washington Post observes today, Gonzales’s passing is being taken with a collective sigh of relief among his own senior staff at Justice. His leadership, they suggest, has been a severe ordeal for the Justice Department. Of course, Patrick Leahy and Harry Reid are quick to remind that the ordeal is not over—Congress will continue to pursue the issues raised by the U.S. Attorney’s scandal, the growing evidence of political prosecutions, doubtful positions taken on FISA, highly coercive interrogations, Guantánamo and a host of other matters… not to mention the serious accusation that Gonzales committed perjury in giving testimony to Congress.

Nevertheless, parting words of a sort are appropriate. When I started writing about the swarm of ethics and other issues descending over the Justice Department, I found myself on the other end of a good amount of correspondence from serving and departed federal prosecutors. They furnished me with a number of leads which have been pursued over the last months, and strongly encouraged me to pursue and look into other matters that I was unsure of—particularly in Alabama, California and Mississippi (which will be the subject of a new series of posts starting next week). I was impressed with many of these writers—with their commitments to the high professional standards which have been the pride of the Justice Department, and their utter despair over the high volume of political sewage which has coursed through the Department since roughly 2002. Their voices are filled with indignation and anger about Gonzales and his wrecking crew, appropriately so. For a farewell to Gonzales, it is only appropriate to turn to one of these career prosecutors who understands the tradition and honor which the Bush Administration has so horribly ruined.

The best farewell piece in the media was authored by Robert T. Kennedy .........

[L. Coyote]

1. I changed only 3 words (inserting Bush) and now Gonzo makes sense. Except, of course,

he would not say this with my three words changed:

"Over the past two and a half years, I have seen tyranny, dishonesty, corruption and depravity of types I never thought possible, I've seen things I didn't know Bush was capable of. But I will tell you here and now that these things still leave me hopeful, because every time I see a glimmer of what the evil man can do, I see the defenders of liberty, truth and justice who stand ready to fight him."

[Quakerfriend]

2. Gonzo and his 'wrecking crew', how true.

I was flabbergasted this morning to turn on CSPAN and find them showing his farewell- all one big glorification...

And then, to find the article in the PHilly Enquirer "Gonzales Farewell Celebration". Oh, and they had a similar article showing Tony Snow's farewell. Pleeeeeeeeeeeeez!


It made me feel like I wanted to riot in the streets!:puke: