Attorney General Alberto Gonzales faced the cameras for all of nine minutes yesterday, but he managed to contradict himself at least four times as he fought off calls to resign over the firing of U.S. attorneys.
"Mistakes were made," he said in fluent scandalese, but "I think it was the right decision."
"I am responsible for what happens at the Department of Justice," he posited, but "I ... was not involved in any discussions about what was going on."
"Kyle Sampson" -- Gonzales's chief of staff -- "has resigned," he said, but "he is still at the department."
And, finally, "I believe in the independence of our U.S. attorneys," Gonzales maintained, but "all political appointees can be removed ... for any reason."
March 15, 2007
Bizarro Logic
WaPo's Dana Milbank captures the madness:
