Why the big deal over Att. General Alberta Gonzales?

Question

So he fired a few attorney generals. Clinton fired 93 under his watch and during some very important investigations. Jay Stephens, then U.S. Attorney in the District of Columbia, was investigating then Ways and Means Chairman Dan Rostenkowski, and was "within 30 days" of making a decision on an indictment. Mr. Rostenkowski, who was shepherding the Clinton's economic program through Congress, eventually went to jail on mail fraud charges and was later pardoned by Mr. Clinton.

Answer 1

We can not justified Mr. Alberto Gonzales by going back and show what the other public servant did or didn't do. The American people already past judgment against them in the past elections. Now the ones that are serving have to do better as they promise and they are not. Mr. Gonzales is one of these public servant that have forgot what really is his mission and job. We just have to see what is going on at all levels and we could see that something is wrong. LIKE...... the three border guards that are in prison because they were doing their jobs, Drugs smugglers caught and then turn loose, corporations hiring illegals and nothing happen to these companies, illegals running free in our cities and nothing happen to them. crimes going up by illegals and nothing is happening, etc. etc. When Mr. Alberto Gonzalez was appointed to this position I was very happy, one because his name is Alberto, my name, because he is Latin, like me, but now, I feel let down, because to me America and my fellow Americans come first, not second. Good luck.!!

Answer 2

I think the big deal is,that is customary to fire all US Attorney Generals at the beginning of the president's term just as Clinton did. Most presidents do. The problem here it was being done during Bush mid term and there are leaks it was a cherry picking firing. Attorneys that were a hindrance to the administration's actions. That is why there is so much talk about the emails that are around supporting these claims.
Fox needs to tell the whole story and stop all the spin

Answer 3

Stop judging the past, and try to live in the now. If Gonzales did something you feel is wrong then go to your congress and demand that they take action.
You may also demand that they write amendments to the Constitution that would change the way Presidents can fire political offices. You can stop the turn over by doing so, and get some people that may do their job because they can not be fired, not doing only what will keep them in office.

Answer 4

The "big deal" isn't about the firings -- presidents are free to hire & fire federal prosecutors (not attorney generals) whenever they want to.

The "big deal" is that Gonzales *lied* about why he fired them. He stated many times that they were fired entirely for performance reasons -- and now there's a ton of evidence, accepted even by republican senators and congressmen, that they were fired not for performance reasons but for flat-out political reasons. If he'd just simply stated at the beginning that they were fired because they weren't toeing the party line, there would be no controversy...
But he didn't, instead he lied.

Yes, Clinton fired 93 federal prosecutors -- and said plainly that he was doing so in order to put in people that would act on his prosecutorial agenda. He didn't lie about it.

Republicans impeached Clinton for lying about Monica, but now they seem to want to cut Bush and Gonzales a great deal of slack for lying. Why the double standard? They lied, they should be punished for it. It's pretty simple.

Answer 5

So you're saying two wrongs make a right???

This is the guy at the top. He needs to be above politics as those who come after him should be and those who came before him should have been.

Why can't you understand this?

Answer 6

Gonzales is a man...
= Alberto
woman= Alberta
since you are trying to hide your "bashing" by using his 'fiasco" to bring something else up;
do the man a favor and refer to him as a man.....