Quoted: "the baseline standard that now applies to the conduct of U.S.

Bum! BUM! BUUUMMMMMMM!!!

From last night's Larry King Live interview with Dick Cheney. With these magicless muggles, an "I don't know" is as good as a confession.

Quoted:
Q: That would be something you would recall.

THE VICE PRESIDENT: I would think so.

This is the July 25th testimony of Alberto Gonzales to the Senate, as presented by the Talking Points Memo Muckraker. It narrows it down to a few extended Q & A exchanges and a number of point-blank evasions. Also, FYI, Veracifier is the video outlet of the TPMMuckraker site that I've dotted half a dozen times by now.

Is GONZALES incompetent, an amnesiac, ignorant, a maniacal and cynical zealot, or just a mere idiot? Find out what the experts think in this Washington Post front page article of July 30th, 2007.

Quoted: When Alberto R. Gonzales was asked during his January 2005 confirmation hearing whether the Bush administration would ever allow wiretapping of U.S. citizens without warrants, he initially dismissed the query as a "hypothetical situation."

Quoted: Representative John Conyers Jr., the Michigan Democrat who is chairman of the committee, said the action was needed “not only to gain an accurate picture of the facts surrounding the U.S. attorneys controversy, but to protect our constitutional prerogatives as a co-equal branch of government.”