Posted on 04/19/2007 8:56:45 AM PDT by 2dogjoe
Navarrette: Will Gonzales get a fair hearing? By Ruben Navarrette Jr. Special to CNN SAN DIEGO, California (CNN) -- Details, details. The critics of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales are absolutely sure of his guilt in the matter of the fired U.S. attorneys. They're just not sure what he's guilty of.
Well, they had better figure it out fast. Gonzales testifies Thursday before the Senate Judiciary Committee.
In an op-ed Sunday for The Washington Post, Gonzales admitted that he had "created confusion" with recent statements about the firings but insisted, "nothing improper occurred."
He wrote that he directed his former deputy chief of staff Kyle Sampson to initiate the process, that he knew it was occurring and that he approved the final recommendations -- but "did not make decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign."
That won't satisfy the critics. Nothing will, absent Gonzales' head. To get it, they keep changing their line of attack.
First, the critics said that Gonzales didn't understand the difference between being the president's personal lawyer and being attorney general. Then, they said he had orchestrated a purge of dissidents to further political goals. Then, they said he lied to Congress. Then, they said he lied to the media. Then, they said he had been a bad manager. Then, they said he bungled the explanation of what happened and created the appearance of a scandal where there may not have been one in the first place.
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Will he? No.
This is an investigation into a case where NO law was broken.
Not much chance of a fair hearing.
The fact that there is a hearing at all considering that past administrations have fired such appointees for no other reason that the could shows that this has nothing to do with fairness. It's purely political grandstanding.
It's the majority of the Judiciary committee that should be forced to resign for their actions.
Gonzales should resign for other reasons, but not for anything relation to these firings.
There goes my lunch! That is a word picture I did NOT need!
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