Reno vs. Gonzales -- Who was worse as AG

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 4 2007, 03:17 PM) [snapback]506907[/snapback]</div>

Before 9/11 occured ,Ashcroft was directing the FBI to investigate brothels in almost every state.He was doing this under the guise of hunting sex slavery ,otherwise he would have no jurisdiction.
Thats ok I guess ,except he totally ignored any terrorism threat and wanted to cut the budget for anti-terrorism.
He used manpower that could have (and should have)been used to investigate AlQueda in flight schools.

 

No question, Reno was far more competent and qualified for the job. The fact that Clinton would have someone like Reno around, who he frequently disagreed with (as opposed to the "yes-men bush favors) speaks volumes about the charactor of the Clinton Administration as a whole. The unqualified cronies bush has filled his administration with is but one thing that makes me want to upchuck ...

As far as Waco goes, that was a disaster that was going to happen no matter what. You seem to be forgetting that those crazies literally blew themselves up, after killing an FBI Agent. Can you imagine how bushco. would have handled it? Except they probably wouldn't have found the compound ...

and as far as the firing of the 96 attorneys - EVERY President does that, just not in the middle of their term, and not for partisan reasons.

Gonzo was in WAY over his head with this one, and it showed ... "I don't recall ..."

 

As far as I can recall Janet Reno did not advocate torture or domestic spying.

 

Did you know Richard Jewel died last week due to heart problems I believe.

Wildkow

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(dbermanmd @ Sep 5 2007, 06:18 AM) [snapback]507230[/snapback]</div>

I can see why you are so depressed.
Your kids are too smart and too wealthy to go to Iraq and sacrifice their lives for our country.Instead they are selfishly pursuing careers.
You must really feel like a total failure.
At least you have a few more kids who might stand up and do the right thing.Maybe they will be on the front lines in Iran ?What a glorious way to die or be permanently disabled.
Sorry to be so blunt, but you do dish it out.

(Im beginning to see Charles Rangel's point ,draft the rich kids and you wont have meaningless wars.)
David,
Are your kids America haters?

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Sep 4 2007, 01:31 PM) [snapback]506914[/snapback]</div>

I've often wondered about this view of Ashcroft. He didn't make Missouri a theocracy during his tenure over two terms, did he? I don't think he is a Christian Reconstructionist at all ( and they are the ones ... all 200 of them ... who believe a state could become a Christian theocracy under the Constitution).

Didn't he refuse to do something that Gonzales et. al. wanted him to approve (the famous late night visit to his hospital room)?

As to the original question, today we will color our perceptions by our party affiliations. But I think history will be a more critical judge of Gonzales, since he lost favor with both left and right, and morale in the Justice Department dropped quite a bit. Reno will get a pass on her policy faux pas because she was chosen not because she was "the best", but because she was the "third best" woman, and because morale in the Dept. of Justice remained normal. And she will not be blamed for Waco or any fallout from the Elian Gonzales cases, because while she took the fall for those operations, she was obviously following orders from one of the morons above her.