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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (102272)3/18/2007 6:29:51 AM
From: stockman_scott  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 362811
 
Gonzales Survival Prospects Called 'Slim to None'
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Attorney General Faces Pressure Over U.S. Attorney Firings

By JOHN HENDREN

March 17, 2007 — - Some political odds makers are betting Attorney General Alberto Gonzales will not make it through the week with the same job title.

"The chances of the attorney general surviving this, I think, are slim to none -- and slim just left the building," said Norman Ornstein, a political analyst at the American Enterprise Institute.

Gonzales faces what could be the most challenging week of his career. On Monday, the Department of Justice is expected to release some 200 pages of potentially damaging e-mails to address accusations he fired eight U.S. attorneys for political reasons on behalf of a White House that felt they were not -- in the words of Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson -- "loyal Bushies."

Sampson lost his job earlier this month. Now it is Gonzales' own job that's on the line....

abcnews.go.com