Gonzales Acknowledges Mistakes, Won’t Resign
Attorney general says he does not regret firing eight federal prosecutors, but accepts responsibility for “mistakes” that triggered probe.
In other words, he is sorry that he didn’t do it in a way that wouldn’t have raised suspicions.
I acknowledge that mistakes were made here. I accept that responsibility. And my pledge to the American people is to find out what went wrong here, to access accountability, and to make improvements so that the mistakes that occurred in this instance do not occur again in the future.
Alberto Gonzalez’s statement today was yet another “I take responsibility” without taking responsibility message of the sort that politicians these days always spew forth. On the surface, it sounds like some kind of an apology, but in fact it is nothing of the sort. Can you find anything in the above statement that comes close to an apology? Nope. It’s a carefully parsed statement that, when you listen carefully, is really saying that he acknowledges that he made mistakes and should have been more careful when he subverted the spirit of the law; and that next time he does something really slimy he will be very meticulous and make sure that no one ever finds out.
It seems pretty obvious to me that the firing of federal prosecutors by the Bush White House was in the planning stages from the beginning; I’m only surprised that it took so long. After all, the goal of the neocons has always been the absolute domination of all three branches of government — and now that their time is running out, they are desperate to leave their people in positions of power before they’re out of office.
It’s fun watching the Bush administration implode. Now all those emails coming out with Rove involved in the prosecutor thing, Gonzales outright lying as revealed by emails (oops, those pesky emails), Cheney on the cover of TIME as a ‘liability.’ You know the Dems in Congress must be working so hard to keep straight faces.