Gonzales departure won't end probes by Delia Cruceru

Alberto Gonzales presented his resignation to the President George Bush Monday. The former Attorney General was the first Hispanic to be helm the Justice Department. Gonzales declared: "Even my worst days as attorney general have been better than my father's best days." President Bush reluctantly accepted Gonzales' resignation, whose "good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons," enduring "unfair treatment that has created harmful distraction at the Justice Department." George Bush named the solicitor general, Paul Clement as a temporary replacement until a nominee will be confirmed by the Senate. The Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said Monday that Gonzales was never fitted for the job, lacking independence, judgment and the spine to say no to Karl Rove. "This resignation is not the end of the story," Reid warned. "Congress must get to the bottom of this mess and follow the facts where they lead, into the White House." Alberto Gonzales, son of immigrants, studied the law school at Harvard, becoming a very close friend with the President Bush signing with him in the mid 1990s and after that he became general counsel and secretary of state when George Bush was governor of Texas, after that winning an appointment to the state Supreme Court.

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by Delia Cruceru for PocketNews (http://pocketnews.tv)

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