I thought that there was more to this story when I wrote it up some time ago. Turns out, it is not that there is more to it, just more of the same from this administration. Not a week after Scooter Libby is found guilty of lying to protect the administration, we find out that Alberto Gonzales has been lying, too.
Last October, President Bush spoke with Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to pass along concerns by Republicans that some prosecutors were not aggressively addressing voter fraud
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The president did not call for the removal of any specific United States attorneys, said Dana Perino, a White House spokeswoman.
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But Ms Perino disclosed that White House officials had consulted with the Justice Department in preparing the list of United States attorneys who would be removed.
Within a few weeks of the president's comments to the attorney general, the Justice Department forced out seven prosecutors.
Previously, the White House had said that Mr. Bush's aides approved the list of prosecutors only after it was compiled.
The role of the president and his advisers in the prosecutor shakeup is likely to intensify calls by Congress for an investigation. It is the worst crisis of Mr. Gonzales's tenure and provoked charges that the dismissals were a political purge threatening the historical independence of the Justice Department.
The idea of dismissing federal prosecutors originated in the White House more than a year earlier, White House and Justice officials said Monday.
No bueno. Bear in mind that Alberto Gonzales denied any political involvement, under oath. These folks are lying to the press in a big way. They are lying to the American people in a big way. On the heels of one perjury probe, they seem to be anxious for another.
I will try to leave the other major lies out of this, but for being an administration so brazen in values and ensconced at the foot of the Lord, they sure do lie an awful lot.
