Gonzales blames McNulty for the firing of the US Attorneys. You see McNulty had integrity and that must be punished.

The Bush administration will not allow anybody with a conscience to escape untarnished from their grasp. Gonzales and company decided that since McNulty had resigned then why not just blame him for everything. I mean what could be more convenient?

Mr. McNulty do you have anything you would like to say? Please?

Another senior justice official announces his resignation. Gonzales, like Bush, is finding himself isolated.

Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty announced his resignation today, saying he is leaving the Justice Department later this summer to enter the private sector, officials said.

McNulty announced his plans to leave in a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, citing the financial pressures of having children entering their college years, one official said.

McNulty acknowledged providing inaccurate information to Congress in February about the dismissals, but blamed the errors on inadequate preparation by others more deeply involved in the removals.


"It seems ironic that Paul McNulty who at least tried to level with the committee goes while Gonzales who stonewalled the committee is still in charge," said Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.), who has asked Gonzales to resign. "This administration owes us a lot better."

It is simple. Anybody with any integrity cannot stomach working for this administration for long, and they resign, leaving only the most immoral bottom feeders left to fawn at George Bush's feet.

Gonzales has played dumb in front of Congress twice and that is what his boss wants him to do. He is a loyal Bushie willing to sacrifice his reputation and perhaps even his soul to appease his master.

It is to Mr. McNulty's credit that he is trying to leave with some sense of decency. Now he should write a book.

Alberto Gonzales was able to tell Congress that he did not make the decision to fire the US attorneys because he delegated that job to his aides.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed a highly confidential order in March 2006 delegating to two of his top aides -- who have since resigned because of their central roles in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys -- extraordinary authority over the hiring and firing of most non-civil-service employees of the Justice Department. A copy of the order and other Justice Department records related to the conception and implementation of the order were provided to National Journal.

In the order, Gonzales delegated to his then-chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson, and his White House liaison "the authority, with the approval of the Attorney General, to take final action in matters pertaining to the appointment, employment, pay, separation, and general administration" of virtually all non-civil-service employees of the Justice Department, including all of the department's political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation. Monica Goodling became White House liaison in April 2006, the month after Gonzales signed the order.

The existence of the order suggests that a broad effort was under way by the White House to place politically and ideologically loyal appointees throughout the Justice Department, not just at the U.S.-attorney level. Department records show that the personnel authority was delegated to the two aides at about the same time they were working with the White House in planning the firings of a dozen U.S. attorneys, eight of whom were, in fact, later dismissed.

Tricky little bastards aren't they? But they are not nearly as tricky as they think they are.

Gonzales former Chief of Staff says attorney firings were politically motivated.

Eight federal prosecutors were fired last year because they did not sufficiently support President Bush's priorities, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff says in remarks prepared for delivery Thursday to Congress.

"The distinction between 'political' and 'performance-related' reasons for removing a United States attorney is, in my view, largely artificial," said Kyle Sampson.

Well boys and girls we have ourselves a full blown scandal here!

Bush might as well stop invoking God because it is clear that he has abandoned him.