Following the revelation that the Bush administration long considered firing Maine's U.S. attorney, the state's two Republican senators sharply criticized Attorney General Alberto Gonzales but stopped short of calling for his resignation.
"Although Mr. Gonzales serves at the pleasure of the President," Sen. Olympia Snowe said Thursday in a written statement, "the President must recognize that the cumulative and troubling pattern of developments that have been disclosed over the past several months has undermined confidence in the Attorney General's ability to serve as the chief law enforcement officer of the United States."
"The President should give these facts serious consideration." Sen. Susan Collins stressed in a telephone interview that the decision is President Bush's, but also said, "I think the attorney general's credibility has been incredibly damaged."
Meanwhile NY. Governor Spitzer has some choice words about Gonzo:
“I think it is a blight upon the Department of Justice that Alberto Gonzales is still the attorney general,” said New York state Gov. Eliot Spitzer (D), who was also previously the state’s Attorney General. “We are brought back to the days, the dark days of the Nixon era, where the tentacles of politics reach into the Department of Justice and threaten our core notions of what justice means.”
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