i choose not to

I've become a regular reader of the White House press briefings. They aren't quite as much fun as they were with Ari Fleischer, they still have good tidbits almost every day. Yesterday, White House counsel Alberto Gonzales' briefing on the administration's torture policy was no exception:

JUDGE GONZALES: I'm not going to get into a discussion about the internal deliberations of the White House. I can say that during this period of time there was a great deal of debate, over a period of days, maybe a period of a couple weeks, when the presidential determination was made, all the agencies had actually weighed-in very strongly.

Q With the President, personally?

JUDGE GONZALES: I believe so. But the equities of all the agencies were presented to the President, and they were before the President as he made his decision.

Q: And who did that, you?

JUDGE GONZALES: Again, I'm not going to talk about --

Q: Well, wait, I'm not sure I understand, why is that a difficult thing to discuss?

JUDGE GONZALES: It's not a difficult thing to discuss, it's just one that I don't choose to discuss.

Q: Why?

JUDGE GONZALES: I just don't.

Q: Why wouldn't that be helpful?

JUDGE GONZALES: We normally don't talk about the internal deliberations within the White House. I don't think that's appropriate.

This administration is so helpful.