Reply #180: TIME: Conservatives to Bush: Fire Gonzales

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Conservatives to Bush: Fire Gonzales
Monday, Apr. 16, 2007 By ADAM ZAGORIN/WASHINGTON
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610738,00.html?xid=site-cnn-partner


Stephan Savoia / AP

In what could prove an embarrassing new setback for embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the eve of his testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee, a group of influential conservatives and longtime Bush supporters has written a letter to the White House to call for his resignation.
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The Letter: "An Unsuitable Steward of the Law"

The two-page letter, written on stationery of the American Freedom Agenda, a recently formed body designed to promote conservative legal principles, is blunt. Addressed to both Bush and Gonzales, it goes well beyond the U.S. attorneys controversy and details other alleged failings by Gonzales. "Mr. Gonzales has presided over an unprecedented crippling of the Constitution's time-honored checks and balances," it declares. "He has brought rule of law into disrepute, and debased honesty as the coin of the realm." Alluding to ongoing scandal, it notes: "He has engendered the suspicion that partisan politics trumps evenhanded law enforcement in the Department of Justice."

The letter concludes by saying, "Attorney General Gonzales has proven an unsuitable steward of the law and should resign for the good of the country...

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DU Discussions:

DeepModem Mom Mon Apr-16-07 10:21 AM
Conservative group in letter to Bush: Fire Gonzales; "He has brought rule of law into disrepute."
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habitual Mon Apr-16-07 10:13 AM
Conservatives to Bush: Fire Gonzales
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babylonsister Mon Apr-16-07 10:57 AM
TIME: Conservatives to Bush: Fire Gonzales
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