In the testimony today, current and possibly soon-to-be former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales (AGAG) stated "I now understand there was a conversation with myself and the president" .
In an AP (sorry) article by Lara Jakes Jordan, excerpted below,
AGAG was ...
Urged in advance by Republicans to clear up any inconsistencies, Gonzales spoke at times in careful, lawyerly terms.
"I now understand there was a conversation with myself and the president," he said at one point.
The hearing produced few if any fresh details on the firings.
Gonzales acknowledged speaking with Bush and White House adviser Karl Rove about complaints over election fraud cases in New Mexico, where David Iglesias was the U.S. attorney.
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"I now understand there was a conversation with myself and the president," he said at one point.
This is a very passive and weird statement to me. If he only understands that a conversation took place with himself and some other person (let alone the President)only following some prompt, how is he to know what was said in the conversation? Or by whom? Is there - are there - more conversations he had that he might not be aware of?
I find this to be a curious statement AGAG made in that memory seems to have been kept somewhere other than in his person. He did not state that he had a conversation with the president, but that he understood there was a conversation with "myself and the president". Almost as if he was looking at the conversation from some other vantage as opposed to being in a conversation with another person.
Not being a mental health expert, I believe that there is some personality separation or something very strangely wrong with this man. Is he a robot? Does that insult androids if I suggest that line of thinking? There appears to be some compartmentalization of events so that certain memories are locked away or hidden from normal access. At the least he is lying, perhaps believing the lies he is lying. But, I worry about his mental state and responsibility to lead others and believe he needs a break away from DC, government, torture memos,and political manipulations of USAs.
Seriously, I do not want to use the WTF exclamation, but when I read what he said in a response to an inquiry, I thought AGAG should be removed from his job because he is removed by at least one layer from earth bound reality.