Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, as I noted earlier, made a statement defending the decision by current AG Eric Holder to reinvestigate CIA operatives who were already investigated by career prosecutors. Well, someone explained it to Gonzales, who now comes out with a statement in an interview with the Washington Times diametrically opposed to his earlier comments:

“Contrary to press reporting and based on the information that’s available to me,” Mr. Gonzales said during an interview Thursday with The Washington Times, “I don’t support the investigation by the department because this is a matter that has already been reviewed thoroughly and because I believe that another investigation is going to harm our intelligence gathering capabilities and that’s a concern that’s shared by career intelligence officials and so for those reasons I respectfully disagree with the decision.”

Translation: I really had no idea what I was talking about, so forget it. If any proof were needed that Gonzales was among the least able of Bush’s appointees, this should do it.