The figurative one in the Senate Hearing Room, that is, not the real one many individuals have experienced at the hands of US personnel after Alberto Gonzales declared the Geneva Conventions “quaint.”
Explaining his role in the botched firing of federal prosecutors, Gonzales uttered the phrase “I don’t recall” and its variants (“I have no recollection,” “I have no memory”) 64 times. Along the way, his answer became so routine that a Marine in the crowd put down his poster protesting the Iraq war and replaced it with a running “I don’t recall” tally.
What happens to US ghost detainees who “can’t recall?” This should be asked every time someone starts to feel pity for the brutal beating Gonzales’ reputation took yesterday.
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