Friday, March 30, 2007

Speaking of Memory Loss

On Wednesday, Lurita Doan, the chief of the General Services Administration, insisted that she "really didn't remember" much about a highly political and dubiously legal videoconference briefing at her agency last January, where a top White House operative outlined in painstaking detail exactly which House and Senate seats will be most hotly contested in the next election cycle. Then on Thursday, Kyle Sampson, the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, said again and again that he was unable to remember various events leading up to the firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year.

Taken together, the appearances of Sampson before the Senate Judiciary Committee and Doan before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform were, as Robert Klein once said sardonically of the Watergate hearings, a "veritable festival of recollection."

  Salon article

In case you're wondering....Federal Agencies are supposed to be non-partisan.

Doan, apparently not realizing her microphone was still on, turned to an aide and said: "Take my water, and my glass. I don't want them to track my fingerprints. They've got me totally paranoid." [...] Doan's husband and her chief of staff both have a military-intelligence background, and she has sold surveillance equipment to the Department of Homeland Security and other agencies -- so she knows how these things work.

   article

"They" may have her paranoid, but she herself is the nut job. Her fingerprints? Like they don't know who she is? Like she committed some physical crime? I hope this was a joke she was making. Let's give her the benefit of the doubt.

A little bit more about Ms. Doan can be found at the Pennsylvania Progressive...


Five Pennsylvania Districts On Rove's Radar


Crooks and Liars has a video of GSA head Lurita Doan squirming to explain an illegal poliitcal meeting she led targeting Congressional races. The meeting used federal resources and time and she participated, something which is prohibited under the Hatch Act. Watching her trying to escape the uncomforatble questions is riveting. They have her dead to rights so she gets a sudden case of amnesia.

  Pennsylvania Progressive post

Amnesia. Paranoia. She could maybe use the services of Health and Human Services.

....but hey, let her do what she wants....she will anyway.


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