Why Are Rove and Gonzales Leaving?
by Jeff Davis
The resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has been all over every newspaper, television network and Internet site. The son of illegal aliens, Alberto Gonzales approved torture, secret prisons, warrantless wiretaps and undermining the Right of habeas corpus. Our Third World Attorney General did everything he could to transform our judicial system into that of a Third World police state.
First off, this is the second one of Bush’s inner circle to jump ship in two weeks, the first being Karl Rove. These are not White House lightweights like all those small fry that fell on their swords at the Justice Department when the U. S. Attorney-firing scandal first broke. These are major-league neocon players. Up until a few weeks ago, I would have said you’d have to pry them out of this administration with a crowbar to remove them.
There was in fact no need for either of them to leave. Rove was holed up in the White House, inaccessible and surrounded with a force field of invincibility for almost seven years, and his status never changed. There was no way Congress or anyone else could have gotten to him with Gonzales in the chair at Justice. Either Rove voluntarily left, or he had some falling out with Bush or Cheney that was so serious he was forced out. (more…)