"Of course he was. You don't fire US Attorney's without the boss's approval. But the press is still making a big thing of it."
Gonzales' major problem is that he stated,
"But that is in essence what I knew about the process; was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on. That's basically what I knew as the Attorney General."
and
"QUESTION: How could your chief of staff be working closely with the President on which U.S. attorneys to be let go and you not know the specifics?
ATTORNEY GENERAL GONZALES: Well, again, as -- I accept responsibility for everything that happens here within this department. But when you have 110,000 people working in the department obviously there are going to be decisions that I'm not aware of in real time. Many decisions are delegated. We have people who were confirmed by the Senate who, by statute, have been delegated authority to make decisions."
He had full discretion to fire these people which is why it is so strange that he didn't just come out and say so. H
Everything that I've seen of Gonzalez suggests that he just isn't up to the job. He's way over his head. His only qualification appears to have been that he is a personal friend of Bush.
Thank God he wasn't nominated for SCOTUS, which was a real threat there for a while.