Washington Post May 14, 07 6:02 PM CDT
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Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty will quit the Justice Department after admitting he misled a Senate committee in its investigation into nine fired US attorneys. Three other top Justice officials have resigned in recent weeks, but McNulty, AG Alberto Gonzales' second-in-command and himself a former US attorney, is the highest-ranking casualty of the scandal to date.
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Opposes bill giving AG discretion
to ban sales to people on terror
watch lists
Associated Press May 4, 07 10:53 PM CDT
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The NRA is urging the Bush administration to oppose a bill that bans suspected terrorists from buying guns. In a letter to AG Alberto Gonzales, the group's executive director objects that the bill, introduced in the Senate last week, "would allow arbitrary denial of Second Amendment rights based on mere 'suspicions' of a terrorist threat."
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Goodling accused of screening prosecutors for party affiliation
Washington Post May 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
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The Justice Department is investigating whether Monoica Goodling, the former aide to Alberto Gonzales recently given immunitiy to testify before Congress, illegally used party loyalty as a criteria in hiring federal prosecutors. Goodling's position involved reviewing applications for prosecutors; it's a violation of federal law to consider political affiliation in hiring for nonpolitical jobs.
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Attorney general receives first subpoena in firing scandal
Yahoo! May 2, 07 8:35 PM CDT
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The Senate demanded all e-mails pertaining to Karl Rove's role in the disputed firing of eight U.S. attorneys from Alberto Gonzales today, setting a May 15 deadline for the attorney general to turn them over. Patrick Leahy, the chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, which issued the subpoena, disputes the White House's claim that the e-mails have disappeared.
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Politico Apr 26, 07 7:39 AM CDT
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John McCain joins the chorus calling for Alberto Gonzales to resign. In an interview after officially launching his campaign in New Hampshire, McCain told the Politico that the attorney general could no longer usefully serve the president. "I reached that conclusion a long time ago," he said, "I just haven’t been asked.”
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Senate testimony "increased my confidence," says President
New York Times Apr 24, 07 7:06 AM CDT
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President Bush is sticking with his beleaguered attorney general despite negative reviews of his performance at last week's Senate hearing from both sides of the aisle. Bush said the testimony from Alberto Gonzales on the pink-slipped U.S. attorneys, roundly characterized as evasive, "increased my confidence in his ability."
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Even Republicans turn on AG as he tries to defend US attorney decisions
National Review Apr 20, 07 9:53 AM CDT
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Senate Republicans turned on Alberto Gonzales yesterday, leaving little political wiggle room for the embattled A.G. Even the most mild questions from Republicans— including traditional Bush allies—about the U.S. attorney dismissals yielded embarrassing results for Gonzales, who came across as strangely disengaged from the department he runs.
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Bipartisan criticism peppers AG's Senate testimony on U.S. attorney firings
Washington Post Apr 19, 07 4:53 PM CDT
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said under oath today he had only limited involvement in the firing of eight U.S. attorneys and "did not do anything improper." Testifying before clearly hostile lawmakers, he spurned calls that he step down, saying, "The moment I believe I can no longer be effective, I will resign."
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Leaked testimony insists any
mistakes made weren't actionable
Los Angeles Times Apr 16, 07 6:59 AM CDT
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Alberto Gonzales will finger chief-of-staff Kyle Sampson as the point man on the U.S. attorney firings but won't cop to any major wrongdoing, an advance copy of his congressional testimony tomorrow reveals. He admits only to lesser sins—withholding "dignified" treatment from pink-slipped U.S. attorneys, for instance—and says it was Sampson who cherry-picked attorneys to ax and suggested potential replacements.
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It would be perfect
for Gonzales, says
law professor
Newsday Apr 13, 07 1:54 PM CDT
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Impeachment isn't just for presidents—it would suit Alberto Gonzales just fine, says law professor Peter Shane, and it would be an excellent way to restore constitutional checks and balances. The grounds for impeachment go beyond the questionable dismissal of U.S. attorneys, he writes.
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Christian law school
has direct route into Justice Department
Boston Globe Apr 10, 07 7:00 AM CDT
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Regent University, the evangelical college founded by Pat Robertson that graduated disgraced Gonzales aide Monica Goodling, has quietly become a huge source of like-minded talent for the Bush administration: Despite its marginal academic credentials, 150 Regent University alumni have been placed in federal positions since 2001.
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Disputes Gonzales statements on his role in dismissals
Washington Post Mar 30, 07 7:50 AM CDT
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Alberto Gonzales was more deeply involved in the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys than he has admitted, and Karl Rove had a direct role in the firings, according to dramatic testimony by the attorney general's former chief of staff yeasterday, reports the Washington Post. Kyle Sampson claimed he briefed his boss at least five times on the prosecutor firings.
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Gonzales was Irrelevant even before the attorneys mess
Belleville News Democrat Mar 29, 07 10:02 PM CDT
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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 clout the AG had when the president repeatedly overrode deals he had negotiated.
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