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Edwards Calls for Gonzales' Resignation
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ABC News' Raelyn Johnson Reports: Former North Carolina Senator and '08 Presidential Candidate John Edwards today called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales following a report of White House involvement in the recent firings of US federal prosecutors.
"Today's news is only the latest and most disturbing sign of the politicization of justice under President Bush," said Edwards in a statement released to media.
"From the abuse of investigative authority under the Patriot Act to the unconstitutional imprisonment of the Guantanamo Bay detainees and illegal torture of prisoners at Abu Ghraib and Bagram Air Force Base, this president has consistently shown contempt for the rule of law," he said.
"Attorney General Alberto Gonzales betrayed his public trust by playing politics when his job is to enforce and uphold the law. By violating that trust, he's done a great disservice to his office. If White House officials ordered this purge, he should have refused them. If they insisted, he should have resigned in protest. Attorney General Gonzales should certainly resign now."
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Gee, if another Supreme Court seat opens up, who do think Bush might nominate?
Posted by: Dirik Lolkus | Mar 13, 2007 2:50:24 PM
Why is that ever since mid last year when Denny Hastert fumbled the ball, and through out the last several months of continued fumbling and bumbling, all the high profile GOPinheads who are caught doing something "wrong"all say the same thing:
"We need to fix [variable]."
Not once have we heard:
"it's my fault, and therfore I resign."
Ashcroft, Hastert, Dumsfield, Bush, Cheney, Rove, Rice, Delay, et al, all should have had the integrtiy to step down. I mean, it's not like they live paycheck to paycheck (well Rice probably does).
Posted by: georgembush | Mar 13, 2007 5:19:18 PM
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