Update to "A Known Known"
Immediately after I posted A“Known Known” about Alberto Gonzales, I checked the New York Times and found this: Bush Criticizes How Dismissals Were Handled: “President Bush said Wednesday that he had confidence in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, but that he was ‘frankly not happy about’ the way Mr. Gonzales had handled the dismissal of federal prosecutors, a move that has led to a Congressional investigation into whether the White House allowed politics to interfere with law enforcement....
The president’s statement did little to tamp down speculation that Mr. Gonzales would be forced to resign. Nor did it settle the growing furor on Capitol Hill, where a Republican senator became the first in his party to call for Mr. Gonzales to step down…”
I won't be surprised if I learn tomorrow morning that Gonzales has resigned for "personal reasons."
2 comments:
Most likely Bush "was ‘frankly not happy about’ the way Mr. Gonzales had handled the dismissal of federal prosecutors" because of the fact that everyone is talking about it right now, and if he'd handled it more competently we'd never even have heard about it. And Bush would be very happy about that.
Given the latest "bombshell" regarding Gonzales' advising Bush to shut down a DoJ inquiry regarding warrantless eavesdropping when Gonzales himself was likely a subject of the investigation, I think Gonzales is going to resign.
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