Summary
Alberto Gonzales' testimony
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Extract
Tilting at windmills.
Thanks for no memories
After hearing Alberto Gonzales uttering the words "I don't recall," "I have no recollection," or "I have no memory" sixty-four times during his April 19 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, and pondering the fact that Gonzales's former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, had said "I don't remember" 122 times before the same committee three weeks earlier, the Washington Post's Dana Milbank suggested that the Justice Department might want to consider serving ginkgo biloba at the employee cafeteria. The forgetfulness defense It seems that Gonzales and Sampson may well have gotten their bad-memory defense from the same source who told them who to fire and hire, namely, Karl Rove. You will recall that Rove managed to escape a perjury charge in the Valerie Plame case by returning to the grand jury to correct his previous testimony that he hadn't talked to Matt Coop...See the full content of this document
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