Communicating with Congress

April 16, 2007 By 1 Comment

I read this morning that Atty. General Gonzales prepapred in mock questioning sessions from Monday to Saturday for his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday this week. Call me crazy, but you don’t need to spend over a hundred hours preparing just to tell the truth or remind people of earlier truths you’ve told. Poor guy — he’s going to have to respond to a interrogation as intense and long as Justices Roberts and Alito did, except without the communicative skill or clear conscience that served those two so well in their performances.

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  1. Luke says:
    April 16, 2007 at 9:59 am

    Such thorough preparation is particularly surprising, given that Gonzales’s opening statement will include the following pre-rationalization for what will likely be a recurring episode of “fuzzy recall”:

    The Committee should also know that, to ensure the independence and integrity of these investigations, and the investigations of congressional committees, I have not spoken with nor reviewed the confidential transcripts of any of the Department of Justice employees interviewed by congressional staff. I state this because, as a result, I may be somewhat limited when it comes to providing you with all of the facts that you may desire. I hope you understand that, to me, it was absolutely essential that the investigative work proceeds in a manner free of any complications by my efforts to prepare for this testimony.

    (see full statement here.)

    It’s SO nice that he couches an excuse for forgetfulness within his concern for the integrity of congressional oversight.

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