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SCOTT HORTON?Fredo?s Last Day |
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Contributed by Scott Horton
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Alberto Gonzales spends his last day in the office as Attorney General today. On Monday, Paul Clement assumes his duties as Acting Attorney General. As the Washington Post observes today, Gonzales?s passing is being taken with a collective sigh of relief among his own senior staff at Justice. His leadership, they suggest, has been a severe ordeal for the Justice Department. Of course, Patrick Leahy and Harry Reid are quick to remind that the ordeal is not over?Congress will continue to pursue the issues raised by the U.S. Attorney?s scandal, the growing evidence of political prosecutions, doubtful positions taken on FISA, highly coercive interrogations, Guantánamo and a host of other matters? not to mention the serious accusation that Gonzales committed perjury in giving testimony to Congress. . . .
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