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Alberto Gonzales: What could go wrong?

Alberto Gonzales and The Truth have kind of a hate-hate relationship. If you've been watching C-SPAN for the last several months, you've seen Attorney General Gonzales try to spin his way out of a web woven over the past six years by himself, President Bush, and other administration insiders.

Most recently, Gonzales suggested that, when he (as White House Counsel) and then-White House Chief of Staff Andrew Card visited then-Attorney General John Ashcroft in the famous Hospital Room Meeting, they discussed not the administration's warrantless wiretapping program, but a different program. At the time, we thought he was lying, attempting to suggest that he wasn't trying to "take advantage of a sick man," Attorney General Ashcroft, who had already voiced his disapproval of the wiretapping program.

Did you think the administration didn't have its lies surrounded by a mantle of more lies, all protecting a solid, inner core of some kind of truth? Turns out Gonzales, in attempting to lie, actually ended up telling the truth! This man is so incompetent, that even when he tries to lie, he can't do it right!

The Raw Story reports that, after September 11, 2001, President Bush signed an executive order authorizing a "series of secret surveillance activities." So, it turns out, Gonzales accidentally let slip that there were other surveillance activities going on without anyone's knowledge. What else has been going on that no one outside of the Bush administration knows about?

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