Now that Alberto's Deputy Attorney General, Paul McNulty, will step down at the end of summer, Alberto can blame the firing of the 8 US attorneys all on him!
"At the end of the day, the recommendations reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names," Gonzales told reporters after a speech about Justice Department steps to curb rising violent crime.
"The one person I would care about would be the views of the deputy attorney general, because the deputy attorney general is the direct supervisor of the United States attorneys," Gonzales said.
Gonzales called McNulty's pending departure "a loss. ... I'm really going to miss him."
McNulty acknowledged last year in October the list of prosecutors who were ordered to leave. On the contrary, recent documents released by the Justice Department show that McNulty was not closely involved in picking allt he U.S. attorneys who were put on the list; it was the job mostly carried through by Gonzales' staff with little prosecutorial experience.
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i dont believe for one second that the final approval authority for the firing of those attorneys resided anywhere other than the lap of Gonzales
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