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It was Senator Tom Coburn of Oklahoma, a diehard conservative, who went the furthest, calling late in the afternoon for Gonzales' resignation. "The best way to put this behind us is your resignation," Coburn said, a statement Gonzales vehemently took issue with. "At the end of the day I did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Gets Hit from Both Sides | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

Whether or not he has lost Specter won't be known until after the hearings. The Pennysylvania Senator can sometimes bark worse than he bites. But it underscored one of Gonzales's chief problems, which existed long before the attorneys scandal broke: he has never made the effort to establish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Gets Hit from Both Sides | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

Two other Republicans questioned Gonzales before lunch and they were easier on him. Sen. Sam Brownback of Kansas simply ran down the list of ousted U.S. attorneys, asking why they had been fired. Gonzales delivered his well-practiced responses. Sen. Orrin Hatch provided the kind of leading questions that are...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Gets Hit from Both Sides | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

But other Republicans were not so charitable. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a key Bush loyalist who early today said that Gonzales's essential virtue "will show through," was tough on the Attorney General. Sessions took particular issue with Gonzales' statement that he could not remember the specifics of a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Gets Hit from Both Sides | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

At one point, Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina gently suggested that the firings may have actually been the result of general personality and ideological conflicts rather than the performance issues that the Justice Department has pointed to, but Gonzales rejected that claim. "Why is your story changing?" a clearly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gonzales Gets Hit from Both Sides | 4/19/2007 | See Source »

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