This just in - Attorney General Alberto "I Have No Respect For the Constitution" Gonzales has just resigned, adding to the list of key players in the Bush regime who have resigned this year, which includes former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, and former Puppetmaster General Karl Rove. Let's look back at the highlights of Gonzales's tenure as chief prosecutor for the United States:
a. Warrantless wiretapping and eavesdropping = okay.
b. Lying to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees = okay.
c. Civil rights for detainees of Guantanamo Bay = not okay.
d. Firing U.S. Attorneys for purely political reasons = okay.
e. Trying to manipulate a hospitalized and barely coherent former AG into reauthorizing the wiretapping bill over the acting AG's orders = okay.
f. The right of habeus corpus = nonexistent.
So why resign now? I guess if you take all your orders from Karl Rove and Rove resigns his post, there just isn't much left for you to do. Or maybe Gonzales figured his assault on the rule of law just wasn't working as well as he had hoped.
Anyway, to you Mr. Gonzales, farewell and good riddance.
2 comments:
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. I just want to correct one glaring inaccuracy in your post. It's not that Mr. Gonzales thinks the right to habeaus corpus is nonexistant. It's that the Constitution merely says you can't take it away--it doesn't explicitly create it. So, if some statute creates it, then, sure, it exists. However, in the absence of such statute, it's just something you can't take away. Assuming it existed. Which it wouldn't.
He seriously tried to make that argument? I would have never pegged him for a strict constructionist.
Post a Comment