“Way to Go, Gonzalesie”

Please, go ahead and read the whole Office of Inspector General Report on the US Attorney scandal. There’s crime and stonewalling by the AG, Asst AGs, Harriet Miers, Karl Rove. . . the list goes on. I’ll just discuss the trail of deniability Gonzales built for himself, which looks a whole lot like incompetence on the order of Mike Brown.

Commentary By: Steven Reynolds

The Office of the Inspector General report is out concerning the US Attorney firings. You can read about the story here at the New York Times, or read the whole 392 page report right here at the DOJ web site. The Gist of it is that there is enough evidence to appoint a Special Prosecutor, Acting US Attorney Nora Dennehy of the District of Connecticut. It appears Ms. Dennehy has no close ties to the miscreants involved in this mess, so maybe we will find out what really happened.

TPM Muckraker is sifting through the report, and they’re reporting that Alberto Gonzales is at the center of a matrix of people and offices who stonewalled the report, including the DOJ, Pete Domeneci’s office, the White House, Harriet Miers, Karl Rove, etc. This is startling in its implications. Dennehy is not conducting a fact-finding mission, but a criminal investigation. I’m thinking it would be good to find some criminal charges here, but I think it is also important to identify the massive incompetences of Alberto Gonzales, as it will shed light on what Republicans think is par for the course for good governemtn. No, I’m not saying we shouldn’t call for prosecution, but incompetence is far more satisfactory to make fun of.

Heck, and since I’m sure someone else is dwelling on the criminal aspects of this issue, I’m going to look at the conclusions of the report concerning Gonzales and his henchmen/women and list a few instances of incompetence right here. From page 327 of the report of the OIG: More