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...General Craig Morford is in line to take over until a new Attorney General could be confirmed. Morford, a 20-year veteran of the department, was brought in to investigate the botched trial of the first major federal antiterrorism case after 9/11. He is in the mold of James Comey, the former Deputy Attorney General who stood up to the White House over its domestic-eavesdropping program. Even New York Senator Charles Schumer, one of Gonzales' harshest critics, called Morford's appointment a positive step. Over the past six months, more than half a dozen top political appointees have left...
...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...
...seemed to revise his explanation for his March 2004 hospital visit to ask then Attorney General John Ashcroft to reauthorize a domestic surveillance program that was secret at the time. Gonzales and another White House official made the bedside visit because Ashcroft's deputy, Jim Comey, who was acting as Attorney General while Ashcroft was under medical sedation, refused to continue the wiretapping program. Gonzales declined to say who sent him on the mission and denied that he was trying to pull an end run on Comey. Instead, he suggested, he approached Ashcroft because a group of eight bipartisan lawmakers...
...That new wrinkle stemmed from Gonzales' testy exchange with Senator Arlen Specter, the panel's top Republican. Specter opened up with former Deputy Attorney General James Comey's testimony to the panel in May over Gonzales' actions while serving as White House Counsel. Comey had alleged that Gonzales tried to convince an ailing Attorney General John Ashcroft, who was in the hospital recovering from gallbladder surgery, to sign off on Bush's warrantless wiretapping program. "There are no rules saying he couldn't take back authority," Gonzales said, trying to explain that they had hoped Ashcroft might be able...
...couldn't remember answers for even the rare friendly inquisitors. After Senator Orrin Hatch, a Utah Republican, tried to prod him about how long Comey was in Ashcroft's room - hinting that maybe he hadn't really been present for much of the conversation - Gonzales replied, "I don't remember...