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...often the case when someone gets the ax in Washington, the official explanation for McNulty's departure was personal. In his one-page letter to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the deputy AG wrote that he will be leaving in late summer because of the "financial realities" of trying to provide for college-age children on a government salary. McNulty, 49, has worked nearly half his life either on Capitol Hill or in the executive branch...
...House was involved in the firing of at least one of the nine U.S. attorneys who were forced to resign last year, the tension between his office and Gonzales's has divided and crippled the department. "There's a war going on between the DAG's office and the AG's office," says one senior Justice official."The thing that's 100% clear is that there's really no leadership. Both the DAG and the AG are so compromised, there's no one running the department. There's a lot of antagonism between those two groups. The DAG is throwing...
...morale at the Justice Department may not be the priority for the White House. They list the prosecution of the war on terror and resisting what they call political posturing by Democrats as the top reasons for keeping the AG. The Democrats, for their part, intend to make them...
...Specter, visibly annoyed, shot back, "Do you prepare for all your press conferences?" His voice rising, he referred again to the contradictory statements Gonzales has made about the firings in different venues, a key issue in judging the AG's credibility on the Hill and his ability to hold the job. Gonzales, still apparently unaware of what he'd done to anger Specter, kept trying to break in to defend himself. When Specter, just beginning to cool down, said, "I don't think you're going to win a debate about your preparation," to the titters of the crowd, Gonzales...
...Gonzales may have learned his lesson. He waited backstage after the first round of questioning to try and patch things up with Specter. While Specter was answering questions from the press about their exchange, saying he was willing to give the AG another chance in the second round, someone informed him that Gonzales was waiting. "It's all right," said Spector, "let him wait...