It Was All A Dream Like Big Said It’d Be

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It Was All A Dream Like Big Said It’d Be
By: Spencer Ackerman Tuesday January 27, 2009 4:29 pm	Tweet

Googling around for something I wrote for TPM in ’07 about Mike McConnell I came across this classic bit of torture-equivocation from Alberto Gonzales. God, I remember that day — July 24, 2007, Gonzales’ personal day of infamy, in which he went down like Jean Grey in Jamaica Bay but without the Phoenix Force to revive him. Paul Kiel was at the TPM offices. I was on the Flophouse’s living room couch. We were both watching C-Span, ordering Ben Craw to get this-or-that snippet for our posts as Gonzales played himself. This was one of my favorite moments:

I still can’t believe this man was actually attorney general. Sure, in another however-many years they’ll be a president worse than Bush, but how in the world am I going to convince generations not yet born that this actually happened?

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mikeyhemlok January 27th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

A national embarrassment, indeed. Perhaps they should consider creating some kind of monument to Gonzales. If there has ever been a similar embodiment of small minded evil and massive incompetence who rose to a high position in government, I cannot think of who it might be. If Dick Cheney was that much of a boob, we would have ended up in a nuclear exchange with England.

But the true obscenity is the frighteningly large population still willing to espouse torture as government policy, not just pundits but holders of high office. I can remember when there was no reasonable argument in favor of torture.

How much we have lost…

mikey