“Being able to go and having a very candid conversation and telling the president: ‘Mr. President, this cannot be done. You can’t do this,’ — I think you want that,” Gonzales told reporters this week. “And I think having a personal relationship makes that, quite frankly, much easier always to deliver bad news.”<\/p>\n
“Do you recall a time when you (were) in there and said, ‘Mr. President, we can’t do this’?” Gonzales was asked.<\/p>\n
“Oh, yeah,” the attorney general responded.<\/p>\n
“Can you share it with us?” a reporter asked.<\/p>\n
“No,” Gonzales said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Now, I think there are two ways to look at this.<\/p>\n
1. Gonzales is lying about this little story, and there’s never been a time in which he’s had to keep the president from going too far. He’s the quintessential “yes man,” who does as he’s told.<\/p>\n
2. Gonzales is telling the truth, and the Attorney General\/WH Counsel — the one who’s approved of abandoning the Geneva Conventions and the rule of law — believes some of the president’s other<\/i> requests are beyond the pale.<\/p>\n
I’m struggling to decide which is worse.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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