[HaveHadEnough]

I have a fear that if and when Gonzalez testifies about the firings, he will malign the reputations and characters of the United States Attorneys that were fired, after telling the USAs that they were being replaced, not because of performance reasons, but because the White House wanted to replace them with other individuals.

If the administration simply stuck with its plan to let these USAs go because they wanted to “give someone else the opportunity” to serve (as they intended), a lot of this would have been avoided.

[conservative in nyc]

I have a fear that if and when Gonzalez testifies about the firings, he will malign the reputations and characters of the United States Attorneys that were fired, after telling the USAs that they were being replaced, not because of performance reasons, but because the White House wanted to replace them with other individuals.

The USAs were given no reason for their firings by anyone at the Justice Department, which is one of the reasons why this has blown up as it has. If you read through the e-mails released today, you'd see that the fired USA from Michigan was asking Justice Department officials why she was fired as recently as the beginning of this month.

I think Gonzalez has been soft on some key issues and isn't a hard-core conservative. But he ought not be fired over this nothing of a "scandal".