March 30, 2007
Gonzales Rebuffs Calls For His Resignation: “Fighting For The Truth”
Things have gone from bad, to worse, to almost rock-bottom for America’s top prosecutor this week.
Today, Gonzales had another press conference in Boston about the DOJ’s educational outreach to kids about child predators. But it was at that conference that he dismissed the latest questions by reporters about calls Democrats and Republicans who’ve called for his resignation: “I am fighting for the truth,” he responded.
The truth is that:
* A Nov. 2006 e-mail shows that the Attorney General meeting with top Justice Department aides to discuss the planned replacement and firing of U.S. Attorneys;
* On March 13th, he was caught lying to reporters about his knowledge and involvement in firing eight U.S. Attorneys, telling them: “I never saw documents. We never had a discussion about where things stood” about terminating U.S. Attorneys.
* On March 26th, NBC correspondent Pete Williams (a former Pentagon spokesman) gave a ’softball interview’ with Gonzales, putting him on a soapbox to attempt to explain his denials of knowledge and inolvement what is now largely known as a series of politically motivated terminations of career federal prosecutors.
The Justice Department remains in a complete state of disarray. It is utterly dysfunctional. A competent CEO would never have conducted him or herself the way that Gonzales since this scandal broke.
Important questions remain: How long will Gonzales remain in office? Will Bush utlimately force his buddy ‘Fredo’ out? Will Gonzales conduct hurt the reputations of career prosecutors, through no fault of their own?
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