I think this says something about his commitment to hiring the disabled. Mr. Bush is rumored to devote major time in a coming speech to the battle against this disease that afflicts at least one in three Bush Administration appointees. Mr. Bush is evidently broken up at the way the disease has ravaged Scooter Libby, who forgot every meeting he had where he brought up the subject of Valerie Plame. Now, with Mr. Gonzales showing signs of early onset Convenient Amnesia, Mr. Bush is seeing this as a major health crisis.

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and senior advisers discussed the plan to remove seven United States attorneys at a meeting last Nov. 27, 10 days before the dismissals were carried out, according to a Justice Department calendar entry disclosed Friday.

The previously undisclosed meeting appeared to contradict Mr. Gonzales’s previous statements about his knowledge of the dismissals. He said at a news conference on March 13 that he had not participated in any discussions about the removals, but knew in general that his aides were working on personnel changes involving United States attorneys.

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Ms. Scolinos said the meeting was in Mr. Gonzales’s conference room at the Justice Department. The meeting focused on “rollout” of the dismissals, she said, and from available records was not a meeting in which a final target list was determined.

Another department official said that Mr. Gonzales did not recall the meeting and that his aides had been unable to determine whether he approved the dismissal plan then.

No word as yet on whether Bush has recognized the the condition so closely connected with Convenient Amnesia, Ethical Deficit Syndrome, which can only be detected if a doctor takes a “culture of corruption” from the patient. Mr. Bush has yet to use the phrase “culture of corruption” during his Presidency, ignoring the way the disease has ravaged both his party and his administration. The two conditions connect with Mr. Bush, whose Press Secretaries claim he doesn’t recall meeting the most important carrier of the “culture of corruption,” Jack Abramoff. As such, some wonder if Mr. Bush suffers from Convenient Amnesia himself.

This reporter was told just last night that Mr. Cheney thinks Convenient Amnesia is a country in the Middle East sitting on a huge cache of oil. We are anxiously awaiting the claims of WMD, connections to Al Qaeda, etc.