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After all of the flack for firing US Attorneys for basically no reason, the Bush Crime Family is changing some of their ways in dealing with such matters.
AP March 9,2007
LAURIE KELLMAN, Associated Press Writer
Just hours after Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the hubbub as an "overblown personnel matter," a Republican senator Thursday mused into a microphone that Gonzales might soon suffer the same fate as the canned U.S. attorneys.
"One day there will be a new attorney general, maybe sooner rather than later," Sen. Arlen Specter ( voting record), R-Pa., said during a Judiciary Committee meeting.
A short time later, Gonzales and his security detail shuttled to the Capitol for a private meeting on Democratic turf, bearing two offerings:
_President Bush would not stand in the way of a Democratic-sponsored bill that would cancel the attorney general's power to appoint federal prosecutors without Senate confirmation. Gonzales' Justice Department had previously dismissed the legislation as unreasonable.
_There would be no need for subpoenas to compel testimony by five of Gonzales' aides involved in the firings, as the Democrats had threatened. Cloistered in the stately hideaway of Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Pat Leahy, D-Vt., the attorney general assured those present that he would permit the aides to tell their stories.
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