Alberto Gonzales, Lying Again

On CNN this evening, Wolf Blitzer interviewed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales about prison conditions at Guantanamo Bay, specifically about a New Yorker article describing the exact treatment of certain prisoners.

When read the brutal, disgusting details of that article, Gonzales replied, "...I have no way of knowing if those allegations are true."

This was an outrageous lie. He had many ways of knowing if the allegations were true, and was simply dodging the question by lying. He didn't want to address the question directly because he is so clearly an advocate of torture, and is so obviously committed to treating our prisoners in ways that go against international law and our great nation's history. He was, after all, one of the principle architects of the policy that led to well-documented cases of torture by Americans.

Alberto Gonzales has demonstrated a consistent propensity to lie, to deceive and to evade the very questions that he, as Attorney General, should be responsible to answer. Worse, he has compromised the very values and laws that he is supposedly protecting as the highest law enforcement officer in the land.

Alberto Gonzales has shown himself to be a dismal failure, a reprehensible stain on our government and our nation's heritage.