i have been deposed

and the last time, they flew three lawyers up from georgia (i don't fly well) to question me. i said 'i don't know' MANY times. however, with ME, it was true. i DIDN'T know because i had NOTHING to do with the situation they were asking about.

i was doing some errands yesterday and had npr on in the car. i truly forgot gonzo was going to be 'testifying'. i just lucked out. the commentators on the radio broadcast (this is my interpretation of course) were saying what a dope gonzo was BUT they had never seen or heard anything like what was going on. how even republicans were dissing the gonz YET EVERYONE sort of pitied him (i didn't detect any pity but then again, i listened to very little actual testimony). one of the analysts then said something about how NO ONE was making the gonz give an ACTUAL REAL answer to THE question. how he denied giving his permission to his 'staff' to do some axing yet the axing indeed took place. WHO was running the SHOW???



Maybe Gonzales Won't Recall His Painful Day on the Hill


By Dana Milbank Friday, April 20, 2007; Page A02
Alberto Gonzales's tenure as attorney general was pronounced dead at 3:02 p.m. yesterday by Tom Coburn, M.D.
The good doctor, who also happens to be a Republican member of the Senate Judiciary Committee, made this clinical judgment after watching Gonzales suffer through four hours of painful testimony. The Oklahoman listed the cause of death as management failure and other complications of the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors.........

...............The hearing was billed as Gonzales's chance to explain the contradictions, omissions and falsehoods in his response to the firings. But instead of contrition, the attorney general treated the committee to a mixture of arrogance, combativeness and amnesia. Even his would-be defenders on the Republican side were appalled.................

Senators Renew Bipartisan Call for Gonzales to Go

by Pam Fessler

NPR.org, April 19, 2007 · Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced renewed calls for his resignation Thursday during a contentious daylong hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee. After lengthy questioning about what led to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year, both Democrats and Republicans said they had lost confidence in the attorney general and his handling of the department.
"The best way to put this behind us is your resignation," Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) said..........

...............The hearing shed little light on the role of the White House in the firings. Gonzales acknowledged that he had a conversation with chief White House political adviser Karl Rove and President Bush about complaints that former U.S. attorney David Iglesias was not pursuing voter fraud cases more aggressively in New Mexico. But Gonzales said he did not know how and when Iglesias' name was added to the list of those recommended for firing, although he said he was not "surprised" to see the name ..............

iglesias gets fired for absenteesim

(which was mainly caused BY HIM BEING AN OFFICER IN THE NAVAL RESERVES) yet all of these OTHER us attorneys are away from their jobs (at the bidding of gonzo of course), are getting complaints from their states YET still HAVE their us attorney jobs

will wonders never cesase

Six U.S. Attorneys Given 2nd Posting in Washington


By Dan EggenWashington Post Staff Writer
A half-dozen sitting U.S. attorneys also serve as aides to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales or are assigned other Washington postings, performing tasks that take them away from regular duties in their districts for months or even years at a time, according to officials and department records.
Acting Associate Attorney General William W. Mercer, for example, has been effectively absent from his job as U.S. attorney in Montana for nearly two years -- prompting the chief federal judge in Billings to demand his removal and call Mercer's office "a mess."...........

..............Iglesias filed a complaint with federal investigators last week, alleging that his dismissal amounted to discrimination based on his status as an officer in the Navy Reserve, which took him away from the job for 40 to 45 days a year. Alleged absenteeism has been the Justice Department's main public criticism of Iglesias, although officials have more recently added concerns about his handling of voter fraud and immigration cases to their arguments about him.
"It's a double standard and it's hypocritical," Iglesias said............

wow now THIS is getting REALLY good!

they (gonzo gonzales and buds) claimed former us attorney david iglesias was an 'absentee landlord' spending TOO MUCH TIME AWAY FROM HIS JOB

guess WHY former us attorney david iglesias was away from his job? HE WAS DOING HIS DUTY AS AN OFFICER IN THE NAVEL RESERVE

this brings me GREAT delight (NOT the part where he was acutally fired of course. i'm sure former us attorney iglesias suffered when he was fired). MORE evidence (NOT that it will make ONE bit of difference. the amercian people seem to be letting ALL of this slide by. they are NOT demanding their congress people start impeachment proceedings against this INSANE administration..........anyway, i rant too much. here's the article

Docked for Duty?"

The Justice Department called David Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, an 'absentee landlord'—a key reason listed for his firing last December. Just one problem: Iglesias, a captain in the Navy Reserve, was off teaching classes as part of the war on terror. Now Iglesias is striking back, arguing he was improperly dismissed.

By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Newsweek

April 4, 2007 - When he wasn’t doing his day job as U.S. attorney in New Mexico, David Iglesias was a captain in the Navy Reserve, teaching foreign military officers about international terrorism
But Iglesias’s military service in support of what the Pentagon likes to call the Global War on Terror (GWOT) apparently didn’t go down well with his superiors at the Justice Department. Recently released documents show that one reason aides to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales cited in justifying the decision to fire Iglesias as U.S attorney late last year was that he was an “absentee landlord” who was spending too much time away from the office.........

....;/The OSC’s inquiry into the Iglesias case—first reported this week in NEWSWEEK— injects yet another irony to the controversy over the U.S. attorney firings.
The Bush administration has vigorously promoted enforcement of USERRA—in large part because of the dramatic increase in National Guard and military reserve members who have been called into active duty due to the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan. The law’s purpose—highlighted by Gonzales himself in a Justice Department press release last summer—is to make sure reservists and National Guard members don’t suffer in the workplace when they are called to serve their country............