boo hoo hoo: Former AG Gonzales 'Disappointed' in His Own Conduct

MAY 24, 2011
Former AG Gonzales 'Disappointed' in His Own Conduct in DOJ Hiring

Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has said for the first time that "I am disappointed that I didn't do things differently" to stop the politicization of the system of hiring career Justice Department attorneys through its honors program during his time in office.

"Obviously everyone is smarter in hindsight. In hindsight you wish you would do some things differently and ... I feel disappointment in myself," Gonzales said, according to filings this week in a pending suit filed on behalf of applicants who were rejected for the program for political or ideological reasons. “I, the attorney general, am ultimately responsible," Gonzales also said.

Gonzales' statements came during a deposition he gave last September in the case of Gerlich v. Department of Justice, now pending before Judge John Bates in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Eight applicants were plaintiffs in the suit filed in 2008, but only three remain. Bates has scheduled a hearing for October on motions by both sides for summary judgment.

“I think everyone in the room realized that, in his own limited way, he was at last being apologetic for what had or had not taken place in this regard," said plaintiffs' lawyer Daniel Metcalfe, who conducted the deposition in Lubbock, Texas. Gonzales is teaching at Texas Tech University in Lubbock. Metcalfe is a former Justice Department official now teaching at American University Washington College of Law.

MORE: http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/05/former-ag-gonzales-disappointed-in-his-own-conduct-in-doj-hiring-.html

And a big FU.

.... bush/Cheney re-election committee by having Monica Goodling and Bradley Schlozman conduct
a voter caging operation you now look back w/ disappointment?