Gonzales lays blame for firings on departing Deputy McNulty
Today, Alberto Gonzales laid the responsibility for firing the nine U.S. Attorneys squarely on the shoulders of the departing Deputy Attorney General, Paul McNulty. Mr. McNulty declined to comment. Seems we may have some in-fighting underway at the Department of Justice:
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he relied on his resigning deputy more than any other aide to decide which U.S. attorneys should be fired last year.
His comments came a less than a day after Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty announced he would resign at the end of the summer _ a decision that people familiar with the plans said was hastened by the controversy over the purge of eight prosecutors.
"You have to remember, at the end of the day, the recommendations reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names," Gonzales told reporters at a National Press Club forum in Washington. "And he would know better than anyone else, anyone in this room, anyone _ again, the deputy attorney general would know best about the qualifications and the experiences of the United States attorneys community, and he signed off on the names."
And, although McNulty declined to comment, chances are that we'll be hearing more from him.
Remember what David Iglesias said last week, "I think all roads lead to Rove."
Gonzo throws McNulty under the bus.
This was suspected from Gonzo: Never taken personal responsiblity of his own actions!
Regardless of what happens from this day forward, the bottom line is that Gonzo is on the chalk list for unemployment very soon. And WH crew who were heavily involved in the USA firing plot bailed out quickly: Harriet Miers, Michael Battle, Kyle Sampson, Monica Goodling, and now Paul McNulty. All roads lead back to a corrupted Administration and to McRove's part in this scandal.
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Do not forget the secret transferral
of authority to Sampson and Goodling, empowered by Gonzales a year ago.
McNulty claims he was deceived, and perhaps he was, or perhaps he was not. As it appears now, Goodling's purpose was no big secret.
Road-to-Rove kill.
Secret transferral
In his article of several weeks ago, Murray Waas of the National Journal wrote that documents from Justice showed that McNulty was intentionally kept uninformed about the secret order by which Gonzales transferred his authority to Sampson and Goodling. Very odd, considering McNulty's position in Justice as second officer of that Dept.
This seems to signify that Gonzales, over a year ago, determined that McNulty was to be kept in the dark concerning this matter of the choosing of the slain. Did McNulty stay in the dark?
McNulty has not resigned. He has announced his intention to resign some months from now, citing financial reasons. Very indefinite.
Secret transferral and "patriot act" Attorneys
At the same time that Gonzales was executing this secret transferral, the Republican Congress amended the so-called patriot act to allow Bush to appoint US Attorneys without Congressional approval. These two threads were knit together in December with the dismissal of the US Attorneys and their replacement with Bush "patriot act" Attorneys. The Dems took over Congress a few weeks afterward.
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Gonzales Praises McNulty - Then Blames Him ...
US AG Gonzales has NO credibility! He gives him a glowing letter of recommendation and then - he blames him for exposing what American has come to know as the truth. The White House runs the US DOJ. Justice in the US DOJ is NOT blind. Let's face it, folks, this administration and all of its appointees need to go.