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Biden on Gonzales: "This Guy is Gone"

March 26, 2007 12:16 PM

ABC News' Brian Wheeler Reports: Appearing on MSNBC's 'Imus' radio program, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., told Don Imus that President Bush should release Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. "I think the president should just cauterize the wound and get it done with. I mean this guy is gone," said Biden.

Biden also said that he was against Gonzales' appointment to the rank of chief law officer from the beginning. Biden said, "I voted against him the first time out because I didn't think he could be independent of the president and I think everything that I have seen since then has demonstrated that."

Biden also said of Gonzales' initial nomination by the president, "It was pretty clear to me when he was nominated that his first and overwhelming loyalty is to the President of the United States of America. The US Attorney General works for the president but that is not who he is responsible to."

On Friday, new emails revealed information that ties Gonzales closer to the firing of the eight U.S. Attorneys, which contradicted his earlier statements. "The president has the right to fire anybody along the way but you know we have ethics rules" and added "we have situations set up where we are not supposed to contact the US attorneys."

March 26, 2007 in Tancredo, Tom | Permalink | User Comments (0)

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