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Elizabeth de la Vega, former federal prosecutor,
comments on Gonzales Resignation:
“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 -- and
should not -- work when the source of the disease is at the head,
a fact that President Bush has vividly demonstrated this morning
when he defiantly accused Congress of dragging Gonzales’s
‘good name through the mud.’ Having used Gonzales as
the executioner of the administration’s unprecedented and
shameful policies with regard to torture, illegal detention and
politicization of the Justice Department, the President now seeks
to politicize Gonzales’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.”
Elizabeth de la Vega, (contact at 408-399-5641)
is a former federal prosecutor with more than 20 years of experience.
During her tenure, she was a member of the Organized Crime Strike
Force and Chief of the San Jose Branch of the U.S. Attorney's Office
for the Northern District of California. Her pieces have appeared
in the Nation Magazine, the Los Angeles Times, and Salon. She writes
regularly for Tomdispatch.com.
She is the author of United States v. George W. Bush et al. She may
be contacted at Elizabethdelavega@Verizon.net.
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