Attorney General Ablerto Gonzales was interviewed by Wolf Blitzer today in The Situation Room. Transcript highlights follow…

On whether there will be an investigation into the Stephen Hadley memo leak

GONZALES: Oh, I don’t know, Wolf. With respect to any kind of possible leak of classified information, we have a typical process…

BLITZER: So there’s no specific investigation, at least not yet?

GONZALES: No, absolutely not.

On the government’s settlement with Brandon Mayfield, a Muslim man falsely detained

GONZALES: Listen. There was a mistake made. There was a mistake made in reading the fingerprints and we’re accountable for the successes. We’re also accountable for the mistakes, and the mistake here was made by the Department of Justice. We acknowledge that and that’s why the settlement was reached.

BLITZER: But there have been other mistakes that have been made, others who have been picked up, arrested, held, detained for long periods of time and then released with an apology. Is it because of the environment after 9/11? What’s going on?

GONZALES: As we do with every circumstance, we make an evaluation about what happened. What mistakes were made, if any. And if in fact, like such as in this case, a mistake was made, the determination was made within the department that this was the appropriate outcome. That this person was entitled to this money, this person was entitled to an apology and so that’s the decision that was made by the department.

And going forward, obviously we will do everything we can to ensure that these kind of mistakes do not happen. But if they do, if there are allegations made again, you know we’ll do an investigation and if mistakes occur despite our best efforts, then obviously we’ll work to address them and to ensure that people do not have to incur this kind of conduct in the future.

On mistakes that have made

BLITZER: Looking back on the decisions that you’ve made and the White House now at the Justice Department, anything jump to mind? Anything that you deeply regret, a decision that you made?

GONZALES: I think that you and I would — I’d have to spend some time thinking about that. Obviously I’m not going to say that I am perfect and that I’ve been perfect in doing my job. Obviously I’ve made some recommendations to my client. Some of those recommendations have not been supported in the courts.

In hindsight, you sometimes wonder if perhaps the recommendation should have been something different.