Attorney General helped cover up Bush drunken driving conviction
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Nick Juliano
Alberto Gonzales’s difficult relationship with the truth has led to calls for a special prosecutor to investigate claims that the attorney general perjured himself during Senate testimony. But as the Washington Post points out Monday, Gonzales and honesty have had a shaky relationship stretching back more than a decade.
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Lies, lies and more lies that led to death and destruction and horrors beyond imagination for innocent Iraqis and Afghanis and the families of over 3,000 patriotic and faithful Americans who paid the ultimate price:
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