From Salon, 5/10/07:
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2007/05/10/gonzales_testimony/
"All roads lead to the White House"
As Alberto Gonzales returns to Capitol Hill to testify, the whodunit
at the heart of the U.S. attorneys scandal remains.
By Mark Benjamin and Walter Shapiro
WASHINGTON --
Alberto Gonzales returns to Capitol Hill on Thursday to testify before
the House Judiciary Committee and to see if he can do further damage
to his reputation and inspire more members of his own party to call
for his resignation.
On April 19, during his attempt to account for his role in the U.S.
attorneys scandal, his foggy memory produced a bipartisan chorus of
criticism.
Appearing under oath before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Gonzales
claimed a failure to recall on 64 separate occasions.
Five committee Republicans either explicitly urged Gonzales to resign
-- or strongly hinted that the longtime George W. Bush advisor should
actively seek employment in the private sector.
But with the president serving as a one-man cheering squad, Gonzales
clings to his job, even as the evidence mounts that the 2006 firings
of eight U.S. attorneys were unjustified and, quite likely, based on
political considerations.
Yet the story is larger than the future arc of Gonzales' governmental
career.
At the core of the scandal is the continuing mystery of who was
responsible for the purge of the U.S. attorneys -- many of whom had
prosecuted corruption cases against Republicans or had balked at
pursuing legally shaky cases against Democrats.
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Who do ya think? Yup. You guessed it. The ole *****-covered Turd
Blossom.
Harry
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