Newsweek reports Gonzales Crams for a Senate Grilling. It describes his intensive prep sessions where "Gonzales kept contradicting himself and 'getting his timeline confused'".
Kevin Drum comments that "If Gonzales was planning to simply tell the truth, he wouldn't 'keep contradicting himself' in practice sessions and he wouldn't need to bring his schedule to a standstill in order to figure out what he's planning to say." I mostly agree with Drum but note he did leave out some of the mitigating circumstances:
"Top DOJ lawyers have decreed he can't talk about the U.S. attorney firings with Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and his staff, who are key witnesses in an internal Justice inquiry into whether DOJ officials misled Congress. (Any consultation could be viewed as an attempt to "coordinate" their stories.) With his chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson, forced to resign, Gonzales has no trusted aide who both knows the facts about the firings and has political skills."
Though you'd think, this is one reason that most organizations keep records about what they do.
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