Gonzales Top Aide Resigns. So What?

   So the story continues with Alberto Gonzales and the firings of eight U.S. Attorneys who were dismissed because of " poor performance " which it is turning out to be not the case. We already know this part so let's get to the other stuff.

   You already know that Sen. Charles E. Schumer has suggested that Gonzales should step down from his position. It wasn't enough for Sen. Schumer to say it once as he did it a second time I guess to let Gonzales know that he was serious. Even Howard Dean said that Mr. Gonzales, "ought to be shown the door — he ought not to be in this administration. We have got to end corruption in our government. It is not OK to be corrupt."

    Gonzales is supposed to have something to say about all of the criticism that has been aimed at him later today.    Source

    Next up should be the Justice Department officials who weren't exactly truthful when questioned about these things by the Congress while they were under oath. Isn't that a form of lying?

Rep. James Sensenbrenner, the senior Republican on the House Judiciary Committee said, "They're going to have to come up with some answers. If they don't, they're going to lose everyone's confidence."

   He also said that if the various reasons for the firings isn't corrected, "then the Justice Department and the attorney general himself are going to die by a thousand cuts."     Source

 

Gonzales also accepted the resignation of his top aide, Kyle Sampson

   By the way, Gonzales took time out of his busy schedule to accept the resignation of his number one aide, Klye Sampson, who neglected to tell some of the other Justice Department officials about his chat with Harriet Miers concerning the firings.

 

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