I don’t understand it, bmaz, but with Gonzo’s reappearance, for some reason, when I hear about “Healthcare Reform,” I think about the “Hospital Visit.”

Gonzo was a one-man “Death Panel” for the Integrity of the Law, and Law Enforcement.

Rather, he should be held to account over the March 11th Re-Certification, where he ‘witnessed’ Bush elevating himself Above the Law.

We’re talking about the Lawyer who guaranteed on a (secret) official document that Bush’s word was The Law of the Land – and then Gonzo carried that document around in his briefcase, for Years, so that No One Else could see it.

That one document, imvho, makes a Mockery of every Memo that OLC ever ’served up’ for Bush by enshrining the ‘real’ power structure of BushCo for all to see – not a Democracy according to the Constitution, but instead a Secret Banana Republic Dictatorship, with the ‘UE’ sock-puppeting as the President of the US, surrounded by a battery of sycophant “Department of Justice” Lawyers, ready to cloak his every unlawful act in Ex-Post Facto ‘legal’ legitimacy.

Heinous, depraved, Monsterous things were done in Our name by Bush and Cheney – without US being told about it – and Gonzo was a key player in perpetrating the Fraud.

The only deal Gonzo should get, imvho, is a fair and impartial trial by a jury of his peers.

When GWB read DC’s “the Pres” meatgrinder-note in a very public exposure, what might have been his characteristic reaction? Shock? Do ya think totally pissed? A metallic feeling of back-stabbed?

A lousey novelist could have the Pres telling AGAG to tell DC to tell IL to tell JudyNYT to push Flame Plame. Then, petard-like, the Pres gets fingered by “the Pres“. Hooboy! Just fantacizing.

@35 – at least that fancy will come with its own soundtrack, “Dusty trails, to Yoo”

@36 – I don’t deny some good arguments can be made, but on torture (as opposed ot the USA firings) you have to go through so many to get to him, even if he was involved in communications/authorizations. I think its his safest place which isn’t the same as safe place. He did give Bush the war crimes spiel, but they could both “rely” on the Bybee “not a war crime if its done to an illegal enemy combatant” bit unless you take that down first. Which means DOJ taking down OLC institutionally as well as being ready to go after the subsequents too – not just Yoo and Bybee, but Levin and Goldsmith and Bradbury and Ashcroft and likely DAGs like torture field tripper Thomspon and Comey and McNulty.

OTOH, between the torture investigations (with OPR finding they should be reopened you have to wonder a bit) and misreps to numerous courts and destruction of evidence AND the USA firings, surely McNulty has more than one thing on his plate these days.

But, when we moved to Reno in the early 90’s, I got a part time job with a polling company, and one of the polls was something that had to do with some local issue in the DC or N Virginia area.

So, I got my list of numbers to call and I’m going along calling specific voters in the household for whatever the issue was. Anyway I call this number and I’m looking at the name for the person to ask for, and some guy answers with a deep deep deep voice (James Earl Jones-like, not him though). He doesn’t say ‘hello’ – he doesn’t say ‘this is so and so, anything any normal person would say.’ He says something strange like they’d say in a spy movie or something, something like ‘the Aspens are turning yellow’ or ‘the moon is brightest on the darkest night’ – one of those odd phrases

So, I’m sitting there with my mouth open, looking at the phone (I think I probably looked like the old RCA dog) asked for the name on the list, and I can’t even remember what he said because it was it was the oddest, most unanticipated response I would have ever thought to expect. I think he said it was some type of business

It was the strangest phone conversation I’ve ever had