{"id":5011,"date":"2007-08-27T10:39:55","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:39:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5011"},"modified":"2007-08-27T23:21:06","modified_gmt":"2007-08-28T06:21:06","slug":"former-prosecutor-on-gonzales-resignation-administration-is-cutting-of-arms-and-legs-to-save-itself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5011","title":{"rendered":"Former Prosecutor on Gonzales Resignation: &#8216;Administration is Cutting Off Arms and Legs to Save Itself&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, author of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fexec%2Fobidos%2FASIN%2F1583227563%2Fnationbooks08&#038;tag=tbb-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\"><em>United States v. George W. Bush et al,<\/em><\/a><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=tbb-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/> sends us the following comments on the resignation of Alberto Gonzales&#8230;<\/p>\n<div class=\"media\">&#8220;With the departures of Karl Rove, and now Alberto Gonzales, the administration is apparently cutting off its arms and legs to save itself.  But this approach does not &#8212; and should not &#8212; work when the source of the disease is in the head, a fact that President Bush has vividly demonstrated this morning when he defiantly accused Congress of dragging Gonzales&#8217;s &#8216;good name through the mud.&#8217;   Having used Gonzales as the executioner of the administration&#8217;s unprecedented and shameful policies with regard to torture, illegal detention, and politicization of the Justice Department, the President now seeks to politicize Gonzales&#8217;s flight from the scene of the crime by blaming the Democrats.  We can only hope that Congress will not be intimidated by this shameless, and very tiresome, refrain.&#8221;\u009d<\/div>\n<p>Ditto. A fish rots from the head down.<\/p>\n<p><i>UPDATE:<\/i> One additional thought. Gonzales finally resigned once his potential impeachment by the Democrats seemed where all of this might be heading. We might suggest the same outcome &#8212; resignation &#8212; would be likely for George W. Bush and\/or Dick Cheney, once they began to see impeachment as likely, giving them both the chance to claim they were being good guys by &#8216;stepping aside for the good of the country.&#8217; What say we give them that out? Dems ought to reconsider their <em>Constitutional duty<\/em> of bringing accountability to the Executive Branch for the many demonstrated acts of High Crimes and Misdemeanors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega, author of United States v. George W. Bush et al, sends us the following comments on the resignation of Alberto Gonzales&#8230; &#8220;With the departures of Karl Rove, and now Alberto Gonzales, the administration is apparently cutting off its arms and legs to save itself. But this approach does [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[192,223],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5011","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accountability","category-dept-of-justice"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5011"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5011\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5011"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5011"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5011"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}