--- In [email protected], "Richard J. Williams" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > jstein wrote: > > And just now, John Sununu of New Hampshire, the > > first Republican senator to call for his resignation. > > > > I think this may be it for Gonzales. Various > > anonymous administration officials were floating > > the rumor this morning that there's a "rift" > > between Bush and Gonzales. Now Sununu's running > > it up the flagpole. > > > Maybe so, but I'm not convinced that there's been any wrongdoing. The > U.S. Attorneys serve at the pleasure of the President - he can fire > them anytime he wants to and for any reason, and their four year terms > had expired. It's as simple as that.
Actually, it's a lot more complicated and a lot more sinister than that, as you know. > Apparently Bush can replace the fired attorneys - he doesn't need the > approval of Congress, according to Arlen Spector, the author of the > provision in the U.S.A. Patriot Act. Specter is not the author of the provision that was snuck into the USA PATRIOT Act (Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act)--as you know. (Boy, if that ridiculous and dishonest acronym doesn't symbolize everything that's wrong with this administration...phony to the core.)
