No support for either Gonzales (Boston Globe)

Source: Boston Globe

GLOBE EDITORIAL

No support for either Gonzales

April 20, 2007

IT IS DIFFICULT to say which version of Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales's role in the firing of eight US attorneys more disqualifies
him as the nation's chief law enforcement officer. There is his version,
in which he was only tangentially involved in an unprecedented mid
term purge of federal prosecutors. If that is true, he allowed
unsupervised underlings to handle one of the most important
responsibilities of the Justice Department.

The other version is the one described by three of those aides: that
Gonzales was closely involved in selecting US attorneys to be fired and
building a case against them. If that version is true, Gonzales was lying
again yesterday when he downplayed his role in his testimony before
the Senate Judiciary Committee. In either case, he should have long
since resigned.

There were no bombshell revelations in yesterday's hearing, but it did
provide new evidence of why Gonzales has been so deceitful about the
firings. In at least some of the cases, the attorneys -- all Bush
appointees -- were being canned for blatantly partisan reasons, either
because the administration believed they were prosecuting Republican
officeholders too aggressively or not prosecuting allegations of voter
fraud by Democrats aggressively enough.

The Justice Department originally maintained that the firings were for
reasons of poor performance. But Gonzales yesterday as much as
admitted that performance was not the issue when he said that he
ordered the dismissals without even looking at the attorneys' job
evaluations. To yank prosecutors out of their offices and off ongoing
investigations without even reviewing their evaluations is flagrant
misconduct by Gonzales.

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He just does not do a good job keeping Bush and WH out of this or doing a good job. I frankly see this as putting him out their and telling him, get rid of those guys that are not playing on our team, and then after he did it, telling him to clean up the mess so it will not get back to Bush and WH. Hard to go down when you sat at the Left Hand of God and God will not help you. Standing by Bush can be really dangerous to your job and just ask all that have been burned. Blair, Powell and the list goes on.:headbang:

ONE WAY >>>.

Junior is the archetype frat-rat gone mad.

Makes one think before you tern on a TV in case the GD thing may blow up in your face. For sure they were all down at the frat house pinning medals on bare skin the day leadership came up.

to Animal House.

mostly men that seem to have a mind set that any thing they do is fine and they know best. It is like they do not believe in a 'we the people' type govt. They would work under a King or a Lenin very well. You can hear it in the AG in front of the Sen. It is like they just have no business doing what they were doing and he would be loyal to his President and to hell with what the Constitution said. Who they are loyal to seems very mixed up. I guess they are all closet autocrats. I once read that some one made a study of what the gen. pop. decide and that it turns out right over a few man who make decide. Wish I could recall where I had read about that

Don't lose sight of that fact: At one time or another, these political appointees were sufficiently "in" to get their U.S. Attorney nomination made, vetted and approved by the Senate. Surely it was an honor for each of them at one time to be called by their president to serve. Unfortunately, they apparently missed the point that their service and their loyalty was due first, foremost and always, to the Republican party. By straying away from party loyalty to prosecute cases of blatant corruption (Duke Cunningham) or to fail to prosecute non-existent cases (voter fraud), many of these attorneys lost their jobs.

A couple of them have spoken out about this shabby treatment, but I'd really like to hear them proclaim it a little louder and lot more clearer that even supposedly neutral notions of justice must conform to Republican party dogma.

in Texas? Can you imagine how he reviewed each case? No one stood a chance of a review, one would imagine, if bush and gonzo were responsible for review/oversight.

for the Final Solution.