Jim Ski's List: Politics

• Gonzales, whom Bush once considered for appointment to the Supreme Court, is the fourth top-ranking administration official to leave since November 2006. Donald H. Rumsfeld, an architect of the Iraq war, resigned as defense secretary one day after the November elections. Paul Wolfowitz agreed in May to step down as president of the World Bank after an ethics inquiry. And top Bush adviser Karl Rove earlier this month announced that he was stepping down.

•  Thousands of documents released by the Justice Department show a White House plot, hatched shortly after the 2004 elections, to replace U.S. attorneys. At one point, senior White House officials, including Rove, suggested replacing all 93 prosecutors. In December 2006, eight were ordered to resign. 

   In several House and Senate hearings into the firings, Gonzales and other Justice Department officials failed to fully explain the ousters without contradicting each other
• During his congressional testimony, Gonzales answered "I don't know" and "I can't recall" scores of times and even some Republicans said his testimony was evasive. Bush, however, praised Gonzales' performance and said the attorney general was "honest" and "honorable."

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• Q&A: President Bush's climate goals

• Questions About Cheney Remain

   

  By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

   

  Published: March 7, 2007

   

  Dick Cheney’s critics, and even some of his supporters, say the vice president has been diminished by the proceedings.

• http://www.nytimes.com/export_html/common/new_article_post.html
  
  
  - Jim Ski on 2007-03-07