Wow...what's next?
[hr style="width: 100%; height: 2px;"]Attorney General helped cover up Bush drunken driving convictionGonzales's apparent willingness to dissemble in order to protect himself or President Bush stretches back to at least 1996, when he intervened to prevent then-Gov. Bush from serving jury duty in Texas, the Post notes. Not until its second-to-last paragraph, however, does the Post article remind readers that by not serving jury duty in the drunken driving case Bush was able to keep his own drunken driving conviction a secret for several more years.[/p] "He's a slippery fellow, and I think so intentionally," University of Texas public affairs professor Richard L. Schott told the Post. "He's trying to keep the president's secrets and to be a team player, even if it means prevaricating or forgetting convenient things."[/p] Questions about Gonzales willingness to protect Bush in relation to the drunken driving case were first [a href="vny!://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6857224/site/newsweek/"]raised[/a] last year by Newsweek investigative reporter Michael Isikoff. If Bush had served on the jury he would have had to reveal his own past conviction, but Gonzales convinced the defense attorney to ask that Bush be kept from the jury on the grounds that he may be called on to pardon the defendant.[/p][a href="vny!://rawstory.com/news/2007/Paper_details_Gonzaless_decade_of_dishonesty_0730.html"]vny!://rawstory.com/news/2007/Paper_details_Gonzaless_decade_of_dishonesty_0730.html[/a]
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