Gonzales History Of Prevarication, Untruths & Misstatements

It seems that eschewing the truth is something that Alberto Gonzales has lots of practice doing. Remember how he lied when pressed on the issue of warrantless wiretaps by Russ Feingold at a Senate hearing? "It is not the policy or the agenda of this president to authorize actions that would be in contravention of our criminal statutes, " said Gonzales.

That little “misstatement” took place after the government had been doing just that for three years!

Now it turns out his history of prevarication goes back much further and the tall tales were protecting the same man, George W. Bush. Back in 1996 when then Governor Bush was called to jury duty, Gonzales gave him a helping hand out of that potentially problematic pinch. Seems Gonzales met with the judge and argued that jury service would pose a potential conflict of interest for Bush. In reality he was trying to prevent Bush from being questioned about his drunken driving arrest and conviction in Maine.

The lie on that matter was Gonzales denying he ever had that meeting when the Judge and attorney present said he did. Slippery little guy, Gonzales. Now he continues his career as deceiver-in-chief by testifying to the Senate that he discussed “other secret programs” with John Ashcroft at his hospital bed and not the illegal wiretapping program which everyone else asserts was the topic at hand.