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CREW: Gonzales' overdue resignation cannot end the investigation of criminal misconduct -- and still need Special Prosecutor
Submitted by crew on 27 August 2007 - 9:30am.
http://www.citizensforethics.org/node/29973

It is CREW's strongly held view that the investigation of criminal misconduct must continue. Melanie Sloan had this to say about the resignation of Alberto Gonzales:

Attorney General Gonzales’ resignation is welcome – and overdue – news. His resignation should not, however, end congressional and Department of Justice investigations into misconduct by the Attorney General and his former top aides. Questions of whether Justice Department officials lied to Congress, conducted criminal inquiries to further political ends, illegally fired U.S. Attorneys and made hiring decisions based on political affiliation still merit investigation regardless of Mr. Gonzales’ resignation.

Just as former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay’s resignation did not impede the ongoing criminal investigation into his conduct while a member of Congress, so Mr. Gonzales’ departure should not stop Congress, the Department of Justice’s Inspector General and the Office of Professional Responsibility from continuing their probes into the illegal actions of our nation’s top ranking law enforcement officials.

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COMMENT:

most basic principle of all has been overturned
Submitted by Anonymous on 27 August 2007 - 1:04pm.

"Our Democratic system of government depends on the principle that all public officials be held accountable for their conduct" says CREW and CREW is right. That principle is what has been lacking and all the impetus in public affairs has been away from that. That is one reason, and I think the main reason, why this country has been led to such a sorry state of affairs.

The Federal Courts need to embrace this principle as the most fundamental of all and they have not. They should be faulted for this. We today see how the lack of this principle has caused the erosion of our other rights. The principle of public accountability is the main prop and it has been ignored.