{promoted from the diaries by kid o.}Great Newsweek article linked from the cover of MSNBC this morning:
Gonzales: Did He Help Bush Keep His DUI Quiet?
According to a Travis County Judge, Gonzales requested an in-chambers meeting to excuse Bush from serving on a DUI Jury, allegedly so that he wouldn't have to face questions about his own DUI. (Though this was not the reason given at the time).
Now, Gonzales is lying about even requesting that meeting.
It seems that Gonzales has been caught in an outright lie about this episode.
Gonzales last week refused to waver. "Judge Gonzales has no recollection of requesting a meeting in chambers," a senior White House official said, adding that while Gonzales did recall that Bush's potential conflict was "discussed," he never "requested" that Bush be excused. "His answer to the Senate's question is accurate," the official said.
Also, see
this historical article on the same subject from the St. Cloud, MN
Times.
From that story:
Bush, announcing his selection of Al Gonzalez as White House counsel: "I understand how important it is to have a person I can trust. ... I know first-hand I can trust Al's judgment." In 1996, as Gov. Bush's general counsel, Gonzalez helped Bush avoid jury duty in a drunken driving case that could have forced the governor to disclose his own 1976 DUI arrest. Instead, the story broke in the press just days before Election Day.
I'm surprised that it even made the news, but of course if this were Bill Clinton this story would be splashed all over the front page headlines of every online news outlet, and probably be the start of an investigation in Congress.
I encourage all of you to go to this link and mail the article to everyone you know. Why can't we Democrats keep this type of news circulating? This is exactly the type of thing that the Republicans seize upon and use to their benefit. It's high time that we use the hypocrisy of the right against them.