Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales met with senior aides on Nov. 27 to review a plan to fire a group of U.S. attorneys, according to new documents released last night, a disclosure that contradicts Gonzales’s previous statement that he was not involved in “any discussions” about the dismissals.
As long as I’ve been around government and Washington (since 1973), I am still repeatedly dumbfounded when these people get caught and lie. Have they never read any history of Watergate or Iran-Contra or even Clinton’s blow job? It’s always the lie that is the undoing. It’s always the lie that makes the difficult situation an impossible sitiation. It’s always the lie that causes the resignation — or the firing — or the conviction.
As it should.