Conyers On Gonzales Resignation: "AG resigns amid a cloud of suspicion"

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By Patrick O'Connor
Aug 27, 2007
(The Politico)

It doesn't look like House Judiciary Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.), one of the most dogged Alberto Gonzales critics, will let a little thing like a resignation deter him from pursuing the outgoing attorney general in the continuing investigation of nine fired U.S. attorneys.

"It is a sad day when the Attorney General of the United States resigns amid a cloud of suspicion that the system of justice has been manipulated for political purposes," Conyers said in a statement released by his office Monday morning.

"More than accountability, we need answers," the Judiciary chairman said. "Unfortunately, the continued stonewalling of the White House in the U.S. attorney scandal has deprived the American people of the truth. If the power of the prosecutor has been misused in the name of partisanship, we deserve a full airing of the facts. The responsibility to uncover these facts is still on the Congress, and the Judiciary Committee in particular."


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/08/27/politics/politico/thecrypt/main3207087.shtml

[malaise]

1. Keep going John Conyers

You're the man.

[DFW]

2. Good for Conyers! Did you all hear what Bush said?

I heard on the radio (I'm in the States for another 24 hours) Bush
angrily saying that Gonzo was forced out by politics.

Now think about THAT one for a second. Gonzo was under investigation
for using his office for political purposes instead of pursuing justice,
which is what you would THINK the head of the JUSTICE Department would
have considered his job to be. As Gonzo violated his oath of office (swear
to uphold/defend the Constitution) as well as (allegedly) the law, only the
Congress was left to investigate charges of wrongdoing, seeing as how Gonzo
and his masters blocked all attempts to gather up evidence. WHAT Justice
Department? Gonzo had to leave due to his own playing at politics, not because
anyone else initiated some campaign against him.

[King Coal]

3. Well, Bush didn't say whose politics. LOL! The irony, eh?

[Disturbed]

4. Gonzo's E-mails & other Docs were under Subpoena.

Did Gonzo deliever those? I don't think he did.

[L. Coyote]

5. From the Conyers Report:

From the Conyers Report: "... we find that there were massive and unprecedented voter irregularities and anomalies in Ohio. In many cases these irregularities were caused by intentional misconduct and illegal behavior...."

http://www.house.gov/judiciary_democrats/ohiostatusrept1505.pdf