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Last month Maegan predicted that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, mired in a scandal over the firing of several U.S. attorneys, would not leave his post without a fight. As evidenced in yesterday’s hearings before the Senate Judiciary Commitee, Gonzalez isn’t ready to give up. I listened to the hearing on NPR for about an hour yesterday, and it was incredible to me how easy it is to evade questions by saying “I don’t recall”. To grilling by senators over meetings that appear in the Attorney General’s calendar and at which Gonzales was present, he answered “I don’t recall.” Man, I wish it were that easy for regular people like me to get out of trouble by just faking amnesia.

…after hours of questions from the panel, an exasperated Sen. Charles Schumer, D-N.Y., said Gonzales didn’t meet that burden [of truth].

“You’ve answered ‘I don’t know’ or ‘I can’t recall’ to close to a hundred questions. You’re not familiar with much of the workings of your own department. And we still don’t have convincing explanations of the who, when and why, in regard to the firing of the majority of the eight U.S. attorneys,” said Schumer.

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