Bush HAS to pardon Gonzo. If he only issues one pardon, it’ll be that one. Because Gonzo WILL flip if he’s not taken care of. He’s the highest ranking BushCo that they can actually prove lied under oath. And he knows where all the bodies are buried.

Boxturtle (PLEEEEEAAAASSSSEE let Bush be stupid enough not to pardon Gonzo)

I can’t help but be wondering why Gonzales hasn’t made it onto the gravy train of wing nut welfare jobs, as it’s known around here. What’s preventing that exactly? If that Schlozman character is deemed eligible for it, why not him?

This administration has been fearless about it’s crimes. (until recently). This suggests to me that they have had in position some kind of a “power” whether by money, reward or punishment (likely all three) that has kept all the threads in place.

This type of power does not mean punishment for all, but severe punishment for some. This produces a chilling affect which can be highly effective. You only have all to beat one kid to make the others fall in line. (and the most likely to fall in line will not be the kid who was beaten, but the witnesses to it.)

I think it’s going to take years to sort this out…If we ever do finally get the truth.

From Haldol (Haloperidol) on Wikipedia — Controversial Non-Medical Uses:

There are multiple reports from Soviet dissidents, including medical staff, on the use of haloperidol for punitive purposes or simply to break the prisoners’ will.[13][14][15] Notable dissidents that were administered haloperidol as part of their court ordered treatment were Sergei Kovalev and Leonid Plyushch.[16] The accounts of Plyushch in the West, after he was allowed to leave the Soviet Union in 1976, were instrumental in the triggering Western condemnation of Soviet practices at the World Psychiatric Association’s 1977 meeting.[17] The widespread use of haloperidol in the Soviet Union’s psychiatric system has a simple explanation: besides chlorpromazine it was the only other psychotropic drug produced in quantity in USSR.[18] Due to the notoriety haloperidol gained in oppressive regimes, Nigel Rodley, a former United Nations special investigator on torture, said: “In the history of oppression, using haloperidol is kind of like detaining people in Abu Ghraib.”[19]

Book Salon up at the Mothership with Dave Zirin’s A People’s History of Sports in the United States

Well, don’t overlook the fact that evidently Abu Gonzo realized that he needed to start looking out for himself and took some highly classified docs out of DoJ, probably for self-protection:

http://emptywheel.firedoglake……briefcase/

The classified materials that are the subject of this investigation consist of notes that Gonzales drafted to memorialize a classified briefing of congressional leaders about the NSA surveillance program when Gonzales was the White House Counsel; draft and final Office of Legal Counsel opinions about both the NSA surveillance program and a detainee interrogation program; correspondence from congressional leaders to the Director of Central Intelligence; and other memoranda describing legal and operational aspects of the two classified programs.

So that’s probably one of the ’scores’ that Cheney is out to settle.

I can’t figure out whether Bush is:
1. So insolent that he doesn’t think anyone did anything wrong, therefore no pardons will be granted,
2. Still cutting deals, therefore the pardons will be at 11:59 on Inauguration Day.
3. Operating on the assumption that if he hands out pardons then his cabal will ‘look guilty’, therefore he’s not handing out pardons.
4. Pissed at Cheney, Wall Street, and everyone else whose bad advice, illegal conduct, yadda, yadda sent Dubya and the Vaunted Bush Family Reputation so far to the realms of hell that it will never return, thereby hanging them all out to dry by not issuing pardons, while counting on the Bush41 outfit to keep his sorry ass out of the penitentiary.

I dream of #4, but it’s more likely #2.

But Gonzo’s in huge trouble. And he’s not the only Latino lawyer involved in that whole DoJ firing that Rover operated. Can you say ‘Iglesias’, and thereby invoke the name of someone who actually does appear to value the law?

Looks like Gonzo got in over his head, and Cheney, Addington, Chertoff (former head of OLC), Alice Fischer, were probably all collassally pissed to realize that if Abu Gonzo has any brains whatsoever, he happened in to a Kinko’s on his daily adventures with the briefcase thingamajiggy.

Bet someone in Texas has copies of whatever was in Abu’s briefcase.
So the word is out: screw Gonzo.

So far, I see only one person to reclaim his soul from this mess, and that’s Scottie McClellan. I’d say two, but Paul O’Neill got out before he was as mangled as McClellan.

I only perused the cousin’s letter, not yet the MSM journalistic reportage. In the civilian sphere, states have various forms of screening which is supposed to balance the ‘detainee’s’ freedoms with other factors and typically does so. Psychiatrists have a checklist. Some allusion in the recounting evoked the specter of new generation atypical antipsychotics as part of the regimen, but haloperidol in literature I have scanned is a fast knockdown with wide applications besides some of the graphic contexts a few threadWriters noted already, some innocuous and life saving. There was a study this week noted in MSmedia about cardiovascular risk as an offset to some of the behavioral benefits for haloperidol and some of the other classical regimens. Most of this is only incidental information I have seen in fragments rather than an organized understanding. The photos of the Sunday brunch August 26, 2007 seem all to be from one, maybe two, photojournalists; Judge looks like he did a lot of work while AG in the image.