Heat remains on Gonzales: Schumer suggests a shortlist of GOP replacements

[maddezmom]

WASHINGTON // A top Democrat predicted yesterday that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales would be forced from his job within a week for the Justice Department's mishandling of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
Sen. Charles E. Schumer of New York also proposed a shortlist of three Republican replacements that he said could win Senate confirmation.

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The three lawyers Schumer suggested Democrats might support to replace Gonzales are:

• Michael B. Mukasey, who returned last year to the private sector after serving as chief U.S. District Court judge of the southern district of New York. Mukasey, a Reagan administration nominee, presided over the terrorism trial of Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman and 11 co-defendants.

• Larry Thompson, who left the Justice Department in 2003 after serving as deputy attorney general under John Ashcroft. Thompson focused on terrorism and corporate crime, including a role in going after Enron Corp.

• James Comey, who left the Justice Department in 2005 after serving as Thompson's replacement. Comey is trusted by some Democrats because of his perceived discomfort with some of the administration's terrorism surveillance policies and because he named U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald as special prosecutor in the CIA leak case that ended with the conviction of Vice President Dick Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby.

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[wakeme2008]

1. IMHO with the short remaining time in Bush's term and with the problems

known So Far Bush will have problems finding anybody to replace Gonzo......

[BR_Parkway]

2. I'd love to see Comey in that slot, seems like he's cut from the same

fiber Fitz is