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WASHINGTON -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales accepted responsibility Tuesday for mistakes in the way the Justice Department handled the dismissal of eight federal prosecutors but he rejected calls for his resignation.

At a Justice Department news conference, Gonzales said he would find out why Congress was not told sooner that the White House was involved in discussions of who would be fired and when. He did not, however, back away his stance that the dismissals that did take place were appropriate.

"I stand by the decision and I think it was the right decision," Gonzales said.

Democrats in Congress have charged that the eight dismissals announced last December were politically motivated and that some of those ousted have said they felt pressured by powerful Republicans in their home states to rush investigations of potential voter fraud involving Democrats.
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-congress-prosecutors,1,6628932.story?coll=chi-news-hed
 
Be specific. On what grounds should President Bush fire AG Gonzales?

Oh, in case you forgot
March 24, 1993, Wednesday
By DAVID JOHNSTON, (Special to The New York Times); National Desk
Late Edition - Final, Section A, Page 1, Column 1, 1053 words
DISPLAYING ABSTRACT - Attorney General Janet Reno today demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton. Jay B. Stephens, the ...
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NY Times
 
Misleading congress. Conducting a 2 year campaign to politically pressure prosecutors to investigate democrats and not republicans or lose their job.

He's a corrupt as they come and needs to go.
 
But here's the neat part.

Just like the eight years preceding him, you are stuck. As badly as some wanted Billary gone, you want Dubya gone...and there is Jack P. Schidtt you personally can do about it except bitch and whine. To your credit, you are doing that much.

Dubya is not the answer to any meaningful question, I'll give you that. But this is not the issue upon which to make your grand stand. He has done nothing illegal, nothing outside the scope of his power, and less than was done by his predecessor in the exact same arena. The more hell you choose to raise here, the more transparant your argument becomes, and I ain't all that sure you can afford much more lost credibility. (the preceding twelve words will be all he responds to from this entire post too.)

This isn't even news. It's fodder for the whiners. Looks like it caught one.
 
Wow, a rant about Billary and Dubya and you didn't even notice the subject of the thread is Gonzales.

Did you reply to the wrong thread, have some hallucination, not bother to read a word, just feel like making random unprovoked insults?

Talk about needless bitching and whining and lost credibility. :laugh:
 
yeah it caught one for sure.

most of the shit posted here isn't even news. it's fodder posted by whiners.

oh no, someone else is talking about global warming...

oh golly, there's some uppity gays/blacks/immigrants looking for some kind of special recognition while the rest of us get nothin' special...

the sky is falling - the liberal media is rewriting our 'heritage'

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WASHINGTON - The Senate voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to end the Bush administration's ability to unilaterally fill U.S. attorney vacancies as a backlash to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' firing of eight federal prosecutors.
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Gonzales got a morale boost with an early-morning call from
President Bush, their first conversation since a week ago, when the president said he was unhappy with how the Justice Department handled the firings.

Also, the Senate by a 94-2 vote passed a bill that would cancel the attorney general's power to appoint U.S. attorneys without Senate confirmation. Democrats say the Bush administration abused that authority when it fired the eight prosecutors and proposed replacing some with White House loyalists.

"If you politicize the prosecutors, you politicize everybody in the whole chain of law enforcement," said Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (news, bio, voting record), D-Vt.

The bill, which has yet to be considered in the House, would set a 120-day deadline for the administration to appoint an interim prosecutor. If the interim appointment is not confirmed by the Senate in that time, a permanent replacement would be named by a federal district judge.

Essentially, the Senate returned the law regarding the appointments of U.S. attorneys to where it was before Congress passed the Patriot Act, including the unilateral appointment authority the administration had sought in the wake of the 9/11 terror attacks.

The vote came as Gonzales and the White House braced for more fallout from the firings. The White House also denied reports that it was looking for possible successors for Gonzales. "Those rumors are untrue," White House deputy press secretary Dana Perino said.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070320/ap_on_go_co/fired_prosecutors
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
He has done nothing illegal, nothing outside the scope of his power, and less than was done by his predecessor in the exact same arena. The more hell you choose to raise here, the more transparant your argument becomes...


This isn't even news. It's fodder for the whiners. Looks like it caught one.
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Hiya cheeky. How's the fishin' out there in east L.A.? Catchin anything?
 
Gonzales' predecessor did more crooked stuff? I suppose I could believe that about Ashcroft what were you thinking of specifically?
 
SouthernN'Proud said:
Dubya is not the answer to any meaningful question, I'll give you that. But this is not the issue upon which to make your grand stand. He has done nothing illegal, nothing outside the scope of his power, and less than was done by his predecessor in the exact same arena. The more hell you choose to raise here, the more transparant your argument becomes...

This isn't even news. It's fodder for the whiners. Looks like it caught one.
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So what ya usin for bait out yonder? Round here the trout are hittin white flies mainly, bass are all over jigs and spinners, and walleye are slow but responding somewhat to larger minnows.
 
You want to whine about Dubya still? This thread was about Gonzales if you still didn't figure that out.
 
Then, some folks are reporting that bottom feeders are hitting on simple dough balls. Personally, I never had any luck using that. You do more salt water or fresh water out there?
 
Don't you dare say shit about what Gonzales did...

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Nice to see the Democrats playing politics.
 
Don't you dare say shit about what Gonzales did...
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Why not?

Nice to see the Democrats playing politics.
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the Senate by a 94-2 vote passed a bill

94-2 sure doesn't sound like "Democrats playing politics". Both parties in the Senate seem to be in agreement on this.
 
WASHINGTON - A Senate panel, following the House's lead, authorized subpoenas Thursday for White House political adviser Karl Rove and other top aides involved in the firing of federal prosecutors.
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The Senate Judiciary Committee decided by voice vote to approve the subpoenas as Republicans and Democrats sparred over whether to press a showdown with
President Bush over the ousters of eight U.S. attorneys.

Democrats angrily rejected Bush's offer to grant a limited number of lawmakers private interviews with the aides with no transcript and without swearing them in. Republicans counseled restraint, but at least one, Sen. Charles Grassley (news, bio, voting record) of Iowa, backed the action.
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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070322/ap_on_go_pr_wh/fired_prosecutors

How about they just swear, go on record, and tell the f-ing truth.
 
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