An update on the firings comes from the Washington Post and includes this:
Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Wednesday it's up to President Bush whether he remains in the administration and said he wants to stay and explain to Congress the circumstances surrounding the firings of eight U.S. attorneys.....
...Several Democrats have called for Gonzales' resignation, among them presidential candidates Hillary Rodham Clinton and John Edwards.
"The buck should stop somewhere," Clinton said in an interview with ABC's "Good Morning America" which was broadcast Wednesday morning. She added that Bush "needs to be very forthcoming -- what did he say, what did he know, what did he do?" and that high-level White House adviser Karl Rove also "owes the Congress and the country an explanation" for his role in the affair.
The firestorm of criticism has erupted in the wake of the disclosure of e-mails within the administration which showed that Gonzales' chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, had discussed the possible firings of U.S. attorneys in early 2005 with then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
Gonzales accepted Sampson's resignation this week; Miers had left the administration earlier this year.
It was the second time in as many weeks that Gonzales came under withering criticism on Capitol Hill. Last week, the attorney general and FBI Director Robert S. Mueller admitted that the FBI had improperly, and at times illegally, used the USA Patriot Act to secretly pry out personal information about Americans in terrorism investigations....
Is anyone else curious as to how Karl Rove manages to insert his nose into all of these mistakes/scandals/screw ups?
Americans are looking for leadership and honesty for our next President. It appears that those associated with this administration and the Republicans haven't a clue about integrity and honesty. It will take years to clean up the mess left by this Bush administration. Our country has lost friends around the world because of this president's preoccupation with Iraq. South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia have not had the attention they need and deserve because this president wanted to settle a score with Saddam Hussein. Now, our people and those around the world have had to suffer because of the mismanagement of our country's power and influence. We've learned a lesson here-----no more Bush family members and no more unnecessary wars.
