{"id":3285,"date":"2007-08-28T09:40:04","date_gmt":"2007-08-28T15:40:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=3285"},"modified":"2017-05-21T03:07:12","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T09:07:12","slug":"did-chertoff-lie-to-congress-about-guantanamo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/08\/did-chertoff-lie-to-congress-about-guantanamo\/","title":{"rendered":"Did Chertoff lie to Congress about Guantanamo?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"deck\"><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/chertoff.bmp\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/08\/chertoff.bmp\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were &#8220;plain vanilla,&#8221; but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture.<\/p>\n<p id=\"byline\">By Mark Benjamin, The Salon<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110316175430\/http:\/\/dir.salon.com:80\/topics\/alberto_gonzales\/index.html\"><font color=\"#003399\">Alberto Gonzales<\/font><\/a> will leave office Sept. 17 with a reputation for being untruthful. During his repeated appearances before Congress earlier this year to explain the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, Gonzales answered &#8220;I don&#8217;t recall&#8221; or some variation as many as 70 times at a sitting. When his replacement comes to Capitol Hill for confirmation, lawmakers hope they will hear nothing but the truth.<\/p>\n<p>But one of the men most often mentioned as his replacement may have some of the same trouble with the truth. Since rumors of Gonzales&#8217; departure surfaced last week, speculation about his successor has centered on Michael Chertoff, the secretary of the Department of <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20090513071539\/http:\/\/dir.salon.com:80\/topics\/homeland_security\/index.html\"><font color=\"#003399\">Homeland Security.<\/font><\/a> Just as Gonzales, under oath before Congress, failed to recall whether there was dissension within the Bush administration over a controversial war-on-terror-related policy, so Michael Chertoff seems to have suffered a similar lapse of memory while under oath before Congress when pressed on a different terror-related policy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20080330065033\/http:\/\/www.salon.com:80\/news\/feature\/2007\/08\/28\/chertoff\/index_np.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>He told the Senate that Pentagon interrogation methods were &#8220;plain vanilla,&#8221; but e-mails reveal his top staff met weekly with FBI officials who said they were torture. By Mark Benjamin, The Salon Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will leave office Sept. 17 with a reputation for being untruthful. 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