just heard dept atty gen paul mcnulty is going to commit public career suicide today.
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A day after McNulty resigned Gonzales places the blame on him for the firings. Does anyone take responsibility in the Bush administration? Cheney, Bush, Rumsfeld, Rice, Wolfowitz, Gonzales… all detrimental to the U.S. and the people they are suppose to serve. May history remember their names for the shame, damage, and failures they have caused.
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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales said Tuesday he relied on his outgoing deputy to determine which federal prosecutors should be fired last year.
Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, the No. 2 official at the Justice Department, submitted his resignation to Gonzales on Monday, the department announced.
“The recommendations reflected the views of the deputy attorney general. He signed off on the names,” Gonzales said while responding to questions at a forum on the Justice Department’s Safer Communities Initiative.
“The deputy attorney general would know best about the qualifications and the experiences of the United States attorneys’ community, and he signed off on the names,” Gonzales said.
Gonzales repeated his admission that he should have known more about the decision-making process that he placed in the hands of his then chief of staff Kyle Sampson, and again said as attorney general he accepts “full responsibility” for the decisions that were made.
Gonzales aides said he was not attempting to be critical of the Justice Department’s departing No. 2 official.
However, one of the attorney general’s strongest critics responded immediately to Gonzales’ comments.
“I heard today that Attorney General Gonzales was trying to assign blame to Paul McNulty for the firings of U.S. attorneys, saying he relied on McNulty’s advice,” said Sen. Charles Schumer, D-New York. “That’s ironic because Paul McNulty came clean with this committee and gave us some valuable information while the attorney general stonewalled.”
McNulty had testified before Congress that he was not involved in the selection of the U.S. attorneys to be fired, but approved the list once it was presented to him.
McNulty told U.S. attorneys at a conference in San Antonio that he would be leaving his post for personal financial reasons this summer.
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utd yeah mcnulty took one for the team...
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Taking one for the team or jumping from a sinking ship?
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maybe taking one while jumping ship...double action
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UTD, maybe its not related to the post, but why is your REP power 0?