Gonzales v. Gonzales If Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had gone to the Senate yesterday to convince the world that he ought to be fired, it’s hard to imagine how he could have done a better job, short of simply admitting the obvious: that the firing of eight United States attorneys was a partisan purge. Mr. […]
Statement by Deputy Press Secretary Dana Perino President Bush was pleased with the Attorney General’s testimony today. After hours of testimony in which he answered all of the Senators’ questions and provided thousands of pages of documents, he again showed that nothing improper occurred. He admitted the matter could have been handled much better, and […]
Dear Messrs. Chairman, Many of us in the Department of Justice have been watching with admiration as you expose the overly political firing of United States Attorneys and hope that you can help in returning our beloved Department to of establishing justice in the United States. We are equally concerned, however, about the politicizing of […]
I just watched the evening news where NBC was criticized for airing the material from Cho. And I got a comment here and on email about my supporting their airing. So I’ll just elaborate on why I, at least, would support making it public. First, the objections are that it’s playing into the killer’s wishes, […]
I’ve been trying [seriously] to understand why watching this hearing was so uncomfortable to me. I kept coming and going, turning it down, turning it up, audibly moaning to my wife’s amusment. I’ve come up with three specific things: First, when Gonzales was not being evasive or picky or not recalling, in other words when […]
Watching Alberto Gonzales is excrutiating. I can’t recall exactly what bothers me about it, but, I think it’s a fair question and I accept responsibility. I’ve made my mistakes and I’m committed to correcting my mistakes. The American people need to know that I didn’t mean to not recall why listening to him is so […]
Now I’m reading people chiding NBC for showing this Cho video. I say show it over and over. Maybe it will alert people to the fact that people with his illness do exist as they always have, and that ignoring them is no way to deal with them. Paranoid people run from care. They see […]
"As for why what was wrong with Cho remains mostly un-named in the Press? I haven’t a clue…" As soon as I asked that question in my last post, I recognized that I might know the answer. By the time effective medication became available for the treatment of Psychotic illnesses, Schizophrenia in particular, the problem […]
Having watched the videos from Cho on NBC news, there’s something that’s not being said. This is Chronic Paranoid Schizophrenia. This endless diatribe against un-named persecutors, his attempt to use escalating metaphors to describe his own torment, his talking about being forced to do this, his description of himself as a martyr, are all the […]