From Rawstory:
Republican source speculates DHS secretary wanted to avoid bruising confirmation
President Bush has apparently dumped Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff from his short list of possible replacements for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who announced his resignation last week under a cloud of scandal.
The White House has been meeting privately with Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate about the next attorney general, whose name is expected to be announced Sept. 17, on Gonzales's last day.
Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, obtained a list of the potential replacements, which it published Thursday. The candidates are former Solicitor General Ted Olson; former Attorney General Bill Barr; former Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger; D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman; former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson; and Michael Mukasey, a former judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
2 comments:
No surprise there.
SPB was Chertoff's gut feeling the one when the US flew nukes over the United States. I guess the White House didn't have time to say it was Al Queada, or Chertoff's gut was the wrong guys.
Or maybe it was Chertoff's gut feeling that Craig wasn't going to resign. And now the latest that Craig may resign. Craig-gate latest is posted.
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