Friday, May 18, 2007

Washington Post: Gonzales is a continuous liar.

There is an astonishing editorial in today's Washington Post - a paper which, more than any other, has sought to minimise any scrutiny of the Bush regime's behaviour - in which it states:

Mr. Gonzales's lack of candor is no longer surprising....
The article itself is entitled, "The Gonzales Coverup" which implies that there has certainly been wrongdoing and a concerted effort to conceal that wrongdoing from public gaze. However, to say that Gonzales's "lack of candor is no longer surprising" is to baldly state that the Attorney General of the United States of America is a confirmed and repeated liar.

And this is not being said by an organisation that is known to be hostile to the Bush regime, this is now being said by an organisation that has bent over backwards to peddle the line that, as long as Bush reassures us that all is well and that proper procedures are being followed, then there really is no need for us to ask any further questions.

Oh, how the pendulum has swung when we now find the Washington Post - of all newspapers - referring to what happened at Ashcroft's bedside as a "shameful episode".

The editorial then goes on to describe what took place that night and subsequently:
Consider: Mr. Gonzales, as the president's lawyer, went to the hospital room of a man so ill he had temporarily relinquished his authority. There, Mr. Gonzales tried to persuade Mr. Ashcroft to override the views of the attorney general's own legal counsel. When the attorney general refused, Mr. Gonzales apparently took part in a plan to go forward with a program that the Justice Department had refused to certify as legal.

Then, when part of the story became public,
Mr. Gonzales resorted to word-parsing. "[W]ith respect to what the president has confirmed, I believe -- I do not believe that these DOJ officials that you're identifying had concerns about this program," he said.

In the pages of the Washington Post we now have Gonzales's lies laid bare. Indeed, this pillar of the Conservative establishment now says that the Attorney General of the United States's "lack of candor is no longer surprising". They are saying that he lies so often and so repeatedly that one can no longer find such a revelation shocking. His lying has now been acknowledged as commonplace. Routine. Par for the course.

How can this man remain in office? What is Bush saying about his contempt for the American people if he allows a confirmed liar to hold the highest law office in the land?

How long can Bush's supporters continue to pretend that there's nothing wrong here when even the Washington Post are writing editorials like this one?

Click title for Washington Post editorial.

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