Alberto Gonzales Defense Fund

[Moby]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402318.html


By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 15, 2007; Page A03

Supporters of former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales have created a trust fund to help pay for his legal expenses, which are mounting in the face of an ongoing Justice Department investigation into whether Gonzales committed perjury or improperly tampered with a congressional witness.

The establishment of a legal defense fund for the nation's former chief law enforcement officer underscores the potential peril confronting Gonzales, who is one of a handful of attorneys general to face potential criminal charges for actions taken in office.
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The head of the Department of Justice is under so much pressure that we need to gather private funds to support him. This is sad on so many levels.

1. That are legal system is based on dollars and anyone can beat if they have enough
2. That the DOJ could even possibly do something like this
3. That the President could appoint someone to such a position

Maybe it turns out that he did nothing wrong but then why did he waste so much time in responding to basic questions. Was it just partisan politics or did he really believe he was above the law?

I'm not buying that he's so incompetent he didn't care bother himself with the details of the firings. This is a smart man on his game. Not some idiot off the street.

[disrupter]

Watch Frontline's "Cheney's Law"

Gonzales not just indefensible

or really, really indefensible,

He is treasonous & traitorous to the US constitution & the American People.

I hope he gets convicted to spend his life in jail, but after the unelected Bush has been ousted so this criminal won't be pardoned by the Whitehouse's leading War Criminal.

I am not opposed to the death penalty in his & other NeoCriminal cases.

[LadyMod at scam.com]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/14/AR2007111402318.html



The head of the Department of Justice is under so much pressure that we need to gather private funds to support him. This is sad on so many levels.

1. That are legal system is based on dollars and anyone can beat if they have enough
2. That the DOJ could even possibly do something like this
3. That the President could appoint someone to such a position

Maybe it turns out that he did nothing wrong but then why did he waste so much time in responding to basic questions. Was it just partisan politics or did he really believe he was above the law?

I'm not buying that he's so incompetent he didn't care bother himself with the details of the firings. This is a smart man on his game. Not some idiot off the street.


Bush had so much confidence in him why doesn't he just pay the bill? Isn't that what friends are for?

:D

[Kinky Jones]

Maybe it turns out that he did nothing wrong but then why did he waste so much time in responding to basic questions. Was it just partisan politics or did he really believe he was above the law?

it is the way the republicans treat the presidential position as king, they "serve at the pleasure of the president" and therefore lying is ok because the president wants them to, the president is responsible for everything in the end and they hold no responibility at all, they are just following orders... they are all a bunch of macnamaras, give horrible advice when they don't know their asses from their elbows but lay all the blame on the guy they gave horrible advice to, do you really think dubya has written one word of his own policies, speeches, etc.?

[LadyMod at scam.com]

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