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Gonzales: Whatever you’re accusing me of, it’s totally not true.
By Ned | April 15, 2007
Having just read All the President’s Men last week, it seemed like there was something comfortably familiar about today’s weak-ass denial in the Post. It’s not a good sign when the only apology in the entire op-ed is patently ridiculous.
My decision some months ago to privately seek the resignations of a small number of U.S. attorneys has erupted into a public firestorm. First and foremost, I appreciate the public service of these fine lawyers and dedicated professionals, each of whom served his or her full four-year term as U.S. attorney. I apologize to them, their families and the thousands of dedicated professionals at the Justice Department for my role in allowing this matter to spin into an undignified Washington spectacle. [Emphasis mine.]
What does Gonzales feel he has to apologize for? He didn’t do a good enough job of covering this up.
If that’s the case, then he probably shouldn’t be apologizing to the prosecutors themselves, many of whom who have stepped forward and not done a whole lot to reduce the magnitude of this story. Instead he should probably be apologizing to the President, Karl Rove and Kyle Sampson, Gonzales’ own little Scooter Libby.
Besides that revealing apology, the rest of the op-ed isn’t really worth reading. It talks about how awfully concerned he is about everybody else’s concerns, and how he’s just biting his lip with sympathy. Then it goes on to talk about how he fired all of the prosecutors for proper reasons.
Of course, he won’t actually tell us what those reasons are. But they’re definitely proper. Hell, if they weren’t, the op-ed wouldn’t be called “Nothing Improper,” now would it?
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