Posted on 03/14/2007 9:45:10 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Sen. Hillary Clinton has launched an Internet campaign calling on supporters to sign a petition demanding that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales resign his post.
In an e-mail sent Wednesday morning to those on her campaign e-mail list – which bears the subject line "A widening scandal” – Clinton states: "Today I called on Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to resign. Join me in calling for him to step down.”
The Democratic presidential hopeful said Gonzales should resign "because he is at the center of a widening scandal over the firing of several U.S. attorneys – firings we now know to be political. These attacks on the impartiality of the federal government’s prosecutors are a genuine threat to the foundations of our justice system.
"It’s so bad that one U.S. attorney in Arkansas was fired to make room for a former aide to Karl Rove.”
The Gonzales controversy erupted following the disclosure of e-mails within the Bush administration that showed Gonzales’ chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, had discussed the possible firings of U.S. attorneys in early 2005 with then-White House Counsel Harriet Miers.
Gonzales has accepted Sampson’s resignation.
Clinton goes on to say: "Gonzales’ chief of staff has already resigned over the firings, but the attorney general himself is ultimately responsible for what happened . . .
"Gonzales isn’t the only one who needs to answer for this scandal. President Bush and his staff must come clean about their involvement in these politically motivated firings. I’ve joined the call for a full and thorough investigation to determine all the facts.”
(Excerpt) Read more at newsmax.com ...
Her whole Peter Paul financial fraud too... efinb
In other news, Paris Hilton launched an effort to stop heiresses from flaunting their wealth and dressing like a slut.
Hillary got a huge assist from the President who just said -- per CCN (if that can be trusted) -- that he was very unhappy with the mishandling of the firing of the US Attorneys.
Gonzales liftoff from DC into private life in T-minus 48 hours. Buh-bye. Thanks for embarrassing our President.
Maybe we should get 'Webb Hubble' to oust Hellary.
Hillary!08 calls it a scandal. Is she as illiterate as she sounds?
What a useless piece of debris she is. Only thing she knows is how to lie and destroy.
dims on the warpath and the GOP sitting on their thumbs as usual. Why support these clowns when they won't even stand up for themselves?
I'm sure that she will.Also she will have the help of more than a few Republicans. If the Republicans went after the Democrats with 1/1,000,000th the gusto they go after Ann Colter....
She's a Hispanophobe! Oh, the Huge Manatee!
Just when you thought you'd seen everything ping.
Is Gonzales investigating Hillary again?
The non-scandal at the Justice Department gets a lot of front-page press, while the real scandal -- gross abuses of the Patriot Act against US citizens -- is forgotten.
But I understand. Why would the Dims push that when they themselves want that ability?
"Mr. Hubbell was a former partner of Mrs. Clinton"
Stop the Presses! Chelsea paternity suit alert!
It serves him right for not nailing her. This woman belongs in the slammer. At a minimum.
Bush is unhappy?
Well, go ahead, George, throw another one under the bus.
Better yet, appoint a special prosecutor and see if he can get Gonzalez on faulty memory.
The President disgusts me.
Under one condition .... that we bring back Ashcroft.
Another death nail in Hillary's tragic comedy aka presidential campaign.
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