re: #737 Aceofwhat?

yes. he is guilty of not simply firing them all.

yeesh.

Firing them midway through their terms is *not* normal.

The one in San Diego, who prosecuted Duke Cunningham and was in the middle of an investigation of Duncan Hunter, was fired with no reason given. She was replaced by somebody who cancelled all corruption investigations. Even the SAC of the local FBI field office went on the record, gave attributed quotes to local media, that it was a political firing specifically to get corrupt officials a pass.

The one in LA was in the middle of an investigation of a congressman in Redlands, was offered a senior partnership with $1 million signing bonus at that congressman’s defense counsel’s office. Suddenly, all the evidence she’d had any hand in gathering was inadmissible.

The one in New Mexico was fired for refusing to discuss an incomplete investigation with the senator who was urging him to plan an indictment announcement for the 3rd week of October (that one there’s an e-mail trail of the senator asking Karl Rove to get rid of him, and Rove telling Gonzales’ deputy to do so).

Etc.

The one in San Francisco appeared to have been due to actually being so bad at his job that every federal judge in the district had signed a petition asking that he be removed. But that’s the only one that was for cause.

Then there was the time (before he was AG, when he was still white house counsel) that he went to the hospital to talk to John Ashcroft, while JA was in the recovery room from major surgery and hadn’t even come out of the anesthetic yet, and tried to get him to sign authorization for something JA had refused repeatedly to approve. Something JA had said, to the president’s face, that’s unconstitutional and I’d resign before I’d approve it.

Four of Gonzales’ deputies had to resign, as did he. The OPR wrote a scathing report. And Gonzales hasn’t been able to find another job in law. Imagine that, a former attorney general who can’t find any law firm in the entire country that would want him on their letterhead.

It takes either total ignorance of the case, or extreme partisanship, to defend him.