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What Tangled Webs

Joan McCarter for Daily Kos

Daily Kos Staff

Monday April 09, 2007 · 12:51 PM PDT

2007/04/09 · 12:51

Gonzales apparently isn't such a great student. He's failing at the cramming thing:

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually wiped his public schedule clean to bone up for his long-awaited April 17 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee—a session widely seen as a crucial test as to whether he will survive the U.S. attorney mess. But even his own closest advisers are nervous about whether he is up to the task. At a recent "prep" for a prospective Sunday talk-show interview, Gonzales's performance was so poor that top aides scrapped any live appearances. During the March 23 session in the A.G.'s conference room, Gonzales was grilled by a team of top aides and advisers—including former Republican National Committee chair Ed Gillespie and former White House lawyer Tim Flanigan—about what he knew about the plan to fire seven U.S. attorneys last fall. But Gonzales kept contradicting himself and "getting his timeline confused," said one participant who asked not to be identified talking about a private meeting.

Well, damn, it's hard to manufacture a timeline and memorize it at the same time. And then there's all that tape to review to figure out which lie he told on which day, and who he told it to. And he can't go to staff for back-up, because they've all been ordered by DOJ lawyers not to talk to each other. Once again, the real estate lawyer from Texas in is way, way over his head.

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