Welcome to Gonzales Watch - Blawging the Ex-Attorney General

Speaking with reporters after the conclusion of today’s testimony by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Senate Judiciary Committee member Charles Schumer (Dem. - N.Y.) (inset below, with Preet Bharara, his Chief Counsel on the Committee) said that there are two outstanding issues that remain to be answered:

First, “should Gonzales stay as Attorney General.” His testimony today, Schumer said, “made it more conclusive that he shouldn’t.” He asserted that “even the White House, as intransigient as they are today, will not keep him.”

Second, there is still no answer about how the names of the eight fired federal prosecutors got on to the list that led of fired attorneys.

“Today’s hearing,” Schumer said, “certainly puts more pressure on the White House to allow [the Senate] to interview Rove, Miers, and others in the White House.”

“Where nobody at Department of Justice can say where the names come from,” the New York Senator concluded, “that points to the White House.”