DNC points to Dem calls for independent inquiry as reason for Gonzales' sudden resignation

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The Independent Inquiry

Michael Link
August 27, 2007 at 03:24 PM

We've been writing about this a lot today, but there's one more point that must be made. Sidney Blumenthal asks, why did Gonzales resign? (http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/08/27/gonzales_resignation/index_np.html)I won't speculate, but certainly this couldn't have convinced him to stay on: (http://www.casavaria.com/sentido/usnews/law/2007/07-0802-mueller-testimony.htm)

But four senators — Russell Feingold of Wisconsin, Dianne Feinstein of California, Charles Schumer of New York and Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island — have called for an independent inquiry into the veracity of the attorney general's testimony before Congress. <...>

The four are calling for the appointment of a special prosecutor, and have done so in a formal letter to the solicitor general. In the letter, they write "it is apparent that the attorney general has provided at a minimum half-truths and misleading statements."

As we've pointed out, we're not done searching for answers.


http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/08/the_independent.php


Dean: It's About Time Gonzales Resigned

August 27, 2007
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Democratic National Committee Chairman Howard Dean issued the following statement on the news of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' resignation:

"It's about time that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned," said Dean. "From illegally firing US Attorneys to limiting voting rights to warrantless wiretapping, Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department has promoted a culture of lawlessness designed to serve the Bush White House's narrow political agenda, not the American people. Gonzales now joins a long list of Republican officials resigning under a cloud of scandal, but these resignations cannot purge the Bush Administration of its problems. The true problem rests with the Bush White House itself, which continues to put what's best for the Republican Party ahead of what's best for America."

http://www.democrats.org/a/2007/08/dean_its_about.php

[Junkdrawer]

1. DLC -or- DNC?

:shrug:

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4. thanks

[Lerkfish]

2. LOL! you mean the DNC, not the DLC.. for a minute I thought I'd entered bizarro world.

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6. I post in my sleep most of the time. Work nights.

Edit is my friend

[SteveM]

3. You think GOPers really listen to the DNC/DLC? Like I listen to a squirrel fart.

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5. who's pressuring the WH to the point that this occurred?

who has uncovered the crimes and abuses to the extent that the administration had to respond at all?

Where is the pressure coming from if the Democrats have been as irrelevant as you insinuate?

[kimmerspixelated]

7. Squirrels fart?

I just KNEW they were nuts.