From Gene Robinson’s column today:
Gonzales had an op-ed Sunday in The Post that included this positively breathtaking claim: The attorney general of the United States writes that “to my knowledge, I did not make decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign.”
To his knowledge? What on earth does that mean? Is Gonzales in the habit of making decisions without his own knowledge?
UPDATE
E-mail:
Rich,
You’ve probably got a dozen of these already regarding Robinson’s column. For my money Gonzales simply made a writing error. He used the word “knowledge” instead of the more accurate word “recollection.”
Perhaps “recollection” is a loaded word, given it’s common use in trials, political scandals, etc., but that seems to me to be the word Gonzales meant to use, which makes his statement just another way of saying “I well as I can remember…” and Robinson’s point more than a bit belabored, like so much of this so-called “scandal.”
Perhaps an Attorney General should be more careful with his words than Gonzales was. It would certainly help this situation, but it would also help if members of the media would take a deep breath and count to 10 before playing gotcha with every little detail.
ME: Fair enough. Shouldn’t he be pretty certain one way or the other, though? It’s a big thing to be fuzzy on.