Watch Alberto Gonzelez get grilled by the Senate Judiciary Committee

April 19, 2007 in Alberto Gonzalez, Prosecutor purge

by Jay Stevens

The long-awaited grilling of Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez has begun.

For those of us who like to see incompetence and malice appropriately rewarded, Gonzalez’ appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee is especially sweet.

Senator Patrick Leahy’s opening remarks began with thoughts on the Virginia Tech shootings, and hopes that the Justice Department can swiftly work things out – and here Gonzalez was beaming and nodding his head eagerly, probably the only person in the country happy, even for a moment, that the shootings occurred. But then things quickly turned sour as Leahy made it evident he thinks there’s enough evidence to support the theory that the US attorney firings were politically motivated, and he lambasted the administration and its Attorney General, who sat alone at a long, red table, at the center of a circle of a throng of journalists and reporters and politicos and onlookers.

Or watch Senator Arlen Specter absolutely paste Gonzalez. If Specter is angry, then Gonzalez is probably toast. It’s safe to say that Specter is angry.

Aw, heck, check out the highlights for yourself…

Basically it’s obvious the Senators have a lot of information, and little of it looks good for Alberto Gonzalez.