He recently said :
"I think that the American people lose if I spend all my time worrying about congressional requests for information, if I spend all my time responding to subpoenas."
The number of documents made classified by the government annually has nearly doubled since Bush came to office - and the most recent info we have about it is from 2005.
Maybe he's too busy making things secret instead?
2007-03-04 03:42:32 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
When you write memos like this, you tend to want to keep them classified:
In the memo, which was written to Bush by Gonzales, the White House legal counsel told the president that Powell had "requested that you reconsider that decision." Gonzales then laid out startlingly broad arguments that anticipated any objections to the conduct of U.S. soldiers or CIA interrogators in the future. "As you have said, the war against terrorism is a new kind of war," Gonzales wrote to Bush. "The nature of the new war places a high premium on other factors, such as the ability to quickly obtain information from captured terrorists and their sponsors in order to avoid further atrocities against American civilians." Gonzales concluded in stark terms: "In my judgment, this new paradigm renders obsolete Geneva's strict limitations on questioning of enemy prisoners and renders quaint some of its provisions."
2007-03-04 03:50:18 · answer #1 · answered by diogenese19348 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He's hiding something of course.
Some secrets are best kept hidden.
Had we known about the Sr-71, for example, then the soviets would have too and this would have better enabled them to shoot them down.
It's quite silly to assume that you know the properties (good/evil) of a secret when you don't even know what that secret is.
2007-03-04 11:47:28 · answer #2 · answered by The_Music_Man 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep.
I'm pretty sure he's hiding something. He is a politician, though.
Everyone in DC has an agenda attached the the skeletons in the closet.
2007-03-04 11:48:42 · answer #3 · answered by ? 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Gonalez is like the mexican banditos in chagre of the fbi
what a joke the fbi is
they could nfind a drug lord crossing his fingers
2007-03-04 11:46:26 · answer #4 · answered by DumbsField o 1 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Why do you think he was nominated by Bush ? This is one of the worst Presidencies and most secretive ones in U.S. history, next to Nixon's years.
2007-03-04 11:45:36 · answer #5 · answered by Big Bear 7 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Yes, he's hiding lots of things.
2007-03-04 11:50:31 · answer #6 · answered by God 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
He's hiding his Mexican accent with a stupid southern accent
2007-03-04 11:45:50 · answer #7 · answered by Natoya B 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I think he must have a lot to hide, otherwise he would just comply to congress in their investigations.
2007-03-04 11:46:16 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 3⤋
He is part of this administration... Does that say anything to you?
2007-03-04 11:53:01 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 2⤋