March 22, 2007
Gonzales Tries To Shift Attention From Firings Controversy, Focuses on Child Predators in St. Louis
In an apparent effort to shift attention away from the controversy between the snowballing controversy over his firing eight (8) U.S. Attorneys, after the apparent influence of key White House advisors to President Bush, U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales appeared with the U.S. Attorney in St. Louis, Missouri at a panel discussion concerning child predators.
Federal prosecutors in St. Louis recently obtained an indictment against Michael Devlin, a former pizza parlor manager who is accused of kidnapping and molesting boys in the area.
Who isn’t against child predators harming children? That could be a sensible move by Gonzales to be outside the nation’s Capitol in order to deflect attention away from the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing focusing on the U.S. Attorney firings.
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