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Mink: He's Merely a Pawn

Gonzales was Irrelevant even before the attorneys mess

Posted Mar 29, 2007 10:02 PM CDT

(Newser) – Who really cares if Alberto Gonzales resigns? Nobody but his family and friends, writes Eric Mink in the St. Louis Dispatch. Because Bush's embattled attorney general proved himself inconsequential long before the botched firings of the insufficiently loyal U.S. attorneys. Congress learned how little... Read full story »

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