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...there is a lesson to be learned from the disgrace of Alberto Gonzales, it is that placing loyalty above judgment can be a hazardous thing. When newly elected Texas Governor George W. Bush pulled Gonzales from a Houston law firm in 1994 to make him general counsel, the future President was looking for a legal bodyguard. He got one who would protect his interests for the next 13 years. In 1996, Gonzales helped get Bush excused from the jury in a drunk-driving case that could have forced the Governor to disclose a 1976 DUI arrest. From...
...Administration line on Alberto Gonzales's resignation is that he made the decision on his own, after weeks of consideration. On Friday, at the end of a two-week vacation in Texas, the Attorney General called President Bush and told him "that he felt it would be in the best interest of the [Justice] department," if he stepped down, according to a senior Administration official. The President "reluctantly accepted that decision," the official says, and later asked Gonzales and his wife, Becky, to come down to Crawford, Texas, where Bush has been on vacation. Arriving for an informal lunch with...
...Zetas arrived. They terrorized the border by day and retired by night to garish mansions in Monterrey and suburbs like San Pedro, not far from the city's business nobility. "No one wanted to admit that we'd become a dormitory for drug lords," says Monterrey publisher Ramón Alberto Garza, head of the online newsmagazine Reporte Indigo...
...members of Congress angered by Alberto Gonzales' recent appearances on Capitol Hill, few seemed to take it as personally as Pennsylvania Senator Arlen Specter. Though he has so far refused to call on Gonzales to resign over his role in the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys and his testimony concerning the Administration's wiretapping programs, Specter has rarely hidden his frustration with Gonzales. Just this week, after Gonzales sent Specter and committee chairman Patrick Leahy a letter trying to defend himself against accusations that he had committed perjury in his testimony before the committee, Specter blasted him for deliberately "misleading...
...oldest person - other than Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who refuses to answer questions on the matter due to an ongoing investigation - to testify has been James Comey, the former No. 2 at the Justice Department. Excluding Comey, 46, the White House has sent five others to testify, none older than 36. Sara Taylor, for example, was Director of the White House's political office before...