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Liar Liar , Documents Say Gonzales’ Pants Are on Fire

10:06 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Politics · Comments Off

26 Jul 2007

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is like a bad boyfriend. He swears up and down that he’s going to stay and make things better but all the evidence proves him to be nothing but a liar and a cheat. Under oath and before Congress Gonzales that emergency meetings on March 10, 2004, focused on a mysterious nameless intelligence program not Bush’s terrorist surveillance program.”

The dissent related to other intelligence activities,” Gonzales testified at Tuesday’s hearing. “The dissent was not about the terrorist surveillance program.”
“Not the TSP?” responded Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York. “Come on. If you say it’s about other, that implies not. Now say it or not.”
“It was not,” Gonzales answered. “It was about other intelligence activities.”

But like a pivotal moment in a novela, enter documents, obtained by The Associated Press.

Gonzales : A Regular Fix It Guy

8:37 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics · Comments Off

24 Jul 2007

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is just a good old fix it guy, vowing to stay in office to fix problems with the Justice Department. Gonzales acknowledged the Justice Department has been shaken by accusations that partisan politics played a role in hiring practices and the administration of justice.

“There are two options available in light of these allegations,” Gonzales said. “I could walk away or I could devote my time, effort and energy to fix the problems.”
“Since I have never been one to quit, I decided that the best course of action was to remain here and fix the problems.”

Gonzales No Bobo : Aware of FBI Violations

8:34 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Justice|Politics|Washington DC · Comments Off

11 Jul 2007

People may call Attorney General Alberto Gonzales many things but dumb shouldn’t be one of them, especially when it comes to civil rights violations stemming from the USA Patriot Act. Gonzales may have told lawmakers the FBI had not abused its potent new terrorism-fighting powers when he wanted to renew the Patriot Act but the truth is six days earlier, the FBI sent Gonzales a copy of a report that said its agents had obtained personal information that they were not entitled to have. And that was just one of at least half a dozen reports of legal or procedural violations that Gonzales received in the three months before he made his statement to the Senate intelligence committee.

Just goes to show you that its not enough to have a Latino in a high level of government. It has to be the right Latino.

Via / MSNBC

Senate Voting No Confidence in Gonzales

2:22 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Politics · Comments Off

11 Jun 2007

alberto%20Gonzalez.jpg Senate Democrats couldn’t get their act together on immigration reform but they plan to hold a no-confidence vote today on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. The move is strictly a symbolic one, although it will force Republicans to state on the record whether Gonzales should keep his job. The resolution is unlikely to survive the test vote today and Most Republicans are likely to vote no, dismissing the whole exercise as a ploy to embarrass President Bush. Not that Bush needs help there. Bush said:

They can have their votes of no-confidence but it’s not going to make the determination about who serves in my government. This process has been drug out a long time. … It’s political.

Drug out? Was he drugged out when he said that?

Via / ABC News

Alberto Gonzales : Hell No, He Won’t Go

10:08 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Politics · 2 Comments

14 Mar 2007

alberto%20Gonzalez.jpg Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may be the most repentant Latino in the US right now but he’s not sorry enough to resign after being called out by the media and political critics for firing eight U.S. attorneys. The firings are accused of having more to do with political positions than job performance.

Gonzales said Tuesday that “mistakes were made,” but turned the focus on himself in the Wednesday interview.
“I think I did make some mistakes and we’re going to take steps to ensure that that doesn’t happen again,” he said.

When asked if he would resign, Gonzales said that he would leave that decision to President Bush and that he was going to focus on his job, like enforcing the Patriot Act and spying on civilians no doubt.

Via / CNN

Alberto Gonzales: “We need to explain ourselves”

12:43 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|PR|Spain|World · Comments Off

25 Oct 2006

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is in Madrid this week attending an anti-terrorism work group, and had a few things to say about the United States’ image in Europe and what needs to be done about it.

He blamed the country’s deteriorating image on misunderstanding in Europe about what the U.S. is doing to fight terrorism.

“Part of the misunderstanding is the fault of the United States in the sense that we need to be out there more, talking about what we are doing and why,” he said.

Gonzales is talking about the U.S.’s “anti-terrorism actions” in Iraq and in other parts of the world, and how the country’s respect for rule of law is often questioned.

“The notion that the United States does not fully support the rule of law is one I find very disappointing,” Gonzales told reporters, especially given that President Bush “believes the Unites States is the leader, is a beacon of hope in the world and it’s important that our actions should reflect a total commitment to the rule of law.”

What I find disappointing is that this man is no more than a puppet for W and is spreading the same old line of “you just don’t understand us” in Europe, a place where people understand exactly what we are doing. That’s why they hate us. Saying “we know you hate us, and this is why…” isn’t going to help matters but hey, who needs allies, right?

Via / The Washington Post

VLMIL Candidate #8: Alberto Gonzales

7:35 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Politics|Polls2006|VivirLatino · Comments Off

21 Jul 2006

alberto%20Gonzalez.jpg Name: Alberto R. Gonzales
Age: 50
Occupation: Attorney General of the United States
Place of Residence: Washington D.C.
Bio: From Wikipedia: “Gonzales was born in San Antonio, Texas and raised in Humble, near Houston. He was the second of eight children born to Pablo and Maria Gonzales. His father, who died in 1982, was a construction worker. Both his parents were children of immigrants from Mexico with less than a high-school education themselves; in the midst of a national debate in the US about immigration from Mexico, Gonzales told Wolf Blitzer on CNN that no immigration documentation exists for three of his grandparents and they may have entered and resided in the United States illegally” But that never stopped Gonzales from moving forward. A veteran of the Air Force and the only one of his siblings to graduate from college, Gonzales graduated from Harvard Law School in 1982. When he was appointed general counsel to then-Texas Governor George W. Bush, that paved the way for a career with the shrub, becoming Texas Secretary of State in 1997 and finally to be named to the Texas Supreme Court in 1999, both appointments made by Governor Bush.

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