Gonzales Being Rewarded for Helping Bush Get Out Jury Duty? Never

My sometimes-boy over at Newsweek Michael Isikoff has been doing a little investigating regarding AG-to-be Gonzales getting Bush out of jury duty so he would not have to disclose his DUI. Check it out.

Senate Democrats put off a vote on White House counsel Alberto Gonzales's nomination to be attorney general, complaining he had provided evasive answers to questions about torture and the mistreatment of prisoners. But Gonzales's most surprising answer may have come on a different subject: his role in helping President Bush escape jury duty in a drunken-driving case involving a dancer at an Austin strip club in 1996. The judge and other lawyers in the case last week disputed a written account of the matter provided by Gonzales to the Senate Judiciary Committee. "It's a complete misrepresentation," said David Wahlberg, lawyer for the dancer, about Gonzales's account.