Prosecutors Assail Gonzales During Meeting

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Source: nytimes

March 29, 2007
Prosecutors Assail Gonzales During Meeting
By DAVID JOHNSTON and NEIL A. LEWIS


WASHINGTON, March 28 — Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales endured blunt criticism Tuesday from federal prosecutors who questioned the firings of eight United States attorneys, complained that the dismissals had undermined morale and expressed broader grievances about his leadership, according to people briefed on the discussion.

About a half-dozen United States attorneys voiced their concerns at a private meeting with Mr. Gonzales in Chicago.

Several of the prosecutors said the dismissals caused them to wonder about their own standing and distracted their employees, according to one person familiar with the discussions. Others asked Mr. Gonzales about the removal of Daniel C. Bogden, the former United States attorney in Nevada, a respected career prosecutor whose ouster has never been fully explained by the Justice Department.

While Mr. Gonzales’s trip was part of a long-scheduled tour, he has been meeting in recent days with prosecutors in an effort to repair the damage caused by the dismissals. President Bush has backed Mr. Gonzales, but his tenure at the Justice Department may still be in peril as lawmakers in both parties have called for his resignation, questioned his credibility and raised doubts that he can lead the department.


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[SpiralHawk]

1. Professional Staff to Gonzo: "Get outa here, you corrupt republicon crony."

America deserves much, much better than you and your corrupt cabal of republicon cronies.

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. republicon - love it,

i'd bet that gonzo has never experienced such "disloyalty" and worse from a crew of professionals.

But look at it from the prosecutors' point of view. Their local bosses are tainted, permanently, with the tattoo of being good POLITICAL soldiers for Team Bush. that means that every prosecution will give the defense a chance to cry politics, no matter what the charges are. It - the cabal - has destroyed the current team of federal prosecutors.

[Enthusiast]

3. Republicon!

America isn't even America with this corrupt cabal of Republicon cronies. The very foundation of law and order has been compromised. What have you done with my country?

[L. Coyote]

4. Duplicate == moved here.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3187159

[Vidar]

5. Undermining any semblance of real justice was the real goal.