President Bush is still standing up for him but this may not last long. Pressure is coming from both sides of the aisle now.
The AP reports:
“I think the president should replace him,” Sununu said in an interview with The Associated Press. …
“We need to have a strong, credible attorney general that has the confidence of Congress and the American people,” said Sununu, who faces a tough re-election campaign next year. “Alberto Gonzales can’t fill that role.”
“I think the attorney general should be fired,” Sununu said.
Next up to be questioned....Rove:
Think Progress reports:
Today on CNN’s Situation Room, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-VT) blew off White House signals that Karl Rove and other senior Bush officials may resist testifying before Congress on the U.S. Attorney purge.
“Frankly, I don’t care whether [White House Counsel Fred Fielding] says he’s going to allow people or not. We’ll subpoena the people we want,” Leahy said. “If they want to defy the subpoena, then you get into a stonewall situation I suspect they don’t want to have.” Asked whether he’ll subpoena Rove, Leahy answered, “Yes. He can appear voluntarily if he wants. If he doesn’t, I will subpoena him.”
And more on Rove from the Chicago Tribune:
Former Sen. Peter Fitzgerald (R-Ill.) said Tuesday that White House political adviser Karl Rove told him in the spring of 2001 that he should limit his choice for U.S. attorney in Chicago to someone from Illinois.
According to Fitzgerald, who was determined to bring in a prosecutor from outside the state, Rove "just said we don't want you going outside the state. We don't want to be moving U.S. attorneys around."
Fitzgerald said he believes Rove was trying to influence the selection in reaction to pressure from Rep. Dennis Hastert, then speaker of the House, and allies of then-Gov. George Ryan, who knew Fitzgerald was seeking someone from outside Illinois to attack political corruption.
Things seem to be falling apart for Bush and his admin. Truth eventually will out.
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A blast from the past:
Reno Ethics Push at Justice Is Still a Work-in-Progress
By Jim McGee
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, December 28, 1996
Attorney General Janet Reno came into office in 1993 with no higher priority than restoring public confidence in a Justice Department under fire from judges who had accused prosecutors of misconduct in several important criminal cases.
Reno tripled the size of the department's internal affairs unit, abolished policies that had delayed internal investigations, appointed ethics advisers in each U.S. attorney's office and began disclosing the results of major internal investigations.
Here's the rest.
good post T, catchoo!
i'm wiped out, going back to bed.
love ya both.
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