Well, well, well, it looks like Bush's Attorney General, Alberto R. Gonzales, is scared: he accepted his top aide's resignation in an attempt to divert attention from his firings of eight federal prosecutors. These dismissals appeared to be politically motivated since these prosecutors said they felt pressured by powerful Republicans in their home states to rush investigations of potential voter fraud involving Democrats.
Rove emerged as the Democrats' newest target after weekend news reports said the New Mexico Republican Party's chairman urged deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, the president's top political adviser, to fire David Iglesias, then the state's U.S. attorney.
In a statement Monday, Conyers said stories about Rove's alleged link to Iglesias' dismissal "raise even more alarm bells for us."
"As a result, we would want to ensure that Karl Rove was one of the White House staff that we interview in connection with our investigation," said Conyers.
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We all know that this comes from the very top. We all know that Karl Rove advises the boob at the very top. All we need is for someone with the balls and wherewithall to stick to their guns and bring this shit to an end!!! Get these people out of power before irreparable damage is done to our country, if it is not too late already!!!!
Schumer: Gonzales has forgotten his oath
Unprecedented? C'mon, they've done worse things than this in the last 6 years.
Here's video of Gonzales parsing the constitution on habeus corpus in January 2007. The only problem with Gonzales resigning would be that the source of all these bad appointments is still in place. "The Decider" is the root of it.
Where was all the complainers of abuse of power when Clinton
fired all 93 of federal prosecutors.
Charles
Every President requests and gets the resignations of all 93 federal prosecutors on taking office. Clinton did, and Bush did.
What's unprecedented about this is that it is not occurring at the change of office, and is pretty clearly politically driven. Neither Reagan nor Clinton purged prosecutors in mid-term.
Bush's lapdog at Justice may have wet the carpet too many times . . .
Holy Cr*p, whats the next Bush scandal going to be.
I saw the newshour on PBS and even the republican congressmen are mad at Gonzales. The reporter said the only people still supporting Gonzales are the Bush administration.
From the Guardian's story:
Your Attorney General's a comedian?
Bob
Sununu calls for Gonzales firing
Bush expressed confidence in him. That's the kiss of death.