Attorney General Gonzales steps down:
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resigned on Monday under pressure after months of controversy and political turmoil that President George W. Bush angrily blamed on his administration's critics in Congress.Bush, who doggedly supported Gonzales during repeated confrontations with the Democratic-controlled Congress, said Gonzales had endured "months of unfair treatment that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department."
"It's sad that we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeded from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," Bush said before leaving Texas for Republican fund-raisers in New Mexico and Washington.
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"I have lived the American dream," said Gonzales, a son of migrant workers who began working for Bush when the president was still the governor of Texas.
"Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days," he said.
Gonzales should be proud of his legacy. He worked his way up from migrant worker obscurity and into the halls of Federal power. From there he was able to argue against the right of habeas corpus, oversee warrantless surveillance of US citizens, advance a legal basis for circumventing the Geneva Conventions to allow torture, and, of course, participate in the prosecutor firing debacle.
Of all of this, it was at the absurd prosecutor firings that finished him. Not even arguing for torture could keep him out of the job!
God Bless America.
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