Biden: Only a 'smoking gun' will oust Attorney General Gonzales

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Source: Bloomberg News

Embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales won’t lose his job unless lawmakers uncover new evidence against him, Senator Joseph Biden said.

Gonzales has “stayed too long,” though “short of us finding a smoking gun, it looks to me like he’s there for a little while longer,” Biden, a Delaware Democrat who is running for his party’s presidential nomination, said in an interview with Bloomberg Television’s “Political Capital with Al Hunt,” scheduled to air today.

Biden serves on the Senate Judiciary Committee, which has questioned Gonzales about the firings of nine U.S. attorneys last year and his role in a terrorist surveillance program. President George W. Bush has resisted calls from at least a dozen Republican and Democratic lawmakers for Gonzales to step down.


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