Alberto Gonzales Won't Be Charged Over Eavesdropping Testimony

By GottaLaff

Bush made me do it! It's his fault. I just followed orders:

Alberto Gonzales, pilloried for allegedly misleading Congress about the Bush administration’s warrantless eavesdropping program, has been exonerated — sort of. According to public records and interviews with federal law-enforcement officials, the Justice Department has concluded that there’s insufficient evidence to bring criminal charges against the former attorney general.

However....

Gonzales also remains under investigation by the Justice Department for matters connected to the wiretaps and the firings, thought to be politically motivated, of nine U.S. attorneys — scandal aplenty.

Better that it be prison time aplenty.

So why skating so easy for someone who consistently trips over his own tongue and falls on his face?

A major reason he escaped criminal charges [...] : that many of his most controversial decisions (first as White House counsel, and later, as attorney general) in authorizing, overseeing, and concealing the eavesdropping program were done at the specific direction of the former president. In other instances, Gonzales and his attorneys argued that his actions were done in furtherance of the Bush administration’s policies — meaning, for what it’s worth, that he did not act with personal intent to do wrong.

Well, as long as his intentions were good...

Isn't that a little like saying you were told to rob a bank to give to the poor? Robin Hood would be proud. And Boy Georgie is snickering. Heh-heh-heh.

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Gonzales remains under investigation by the Justice Department he once led for two matters: the firings of those nine U. S. attorneys, and — this should sound familiar — whether Gonzales and other government attorneys acted properly in authorizing and overseeing the eavesdropping program.

Our legal system needs a legal system.

More of Murray Waas' piece here.

H/t: Alan Colmes