LETTER TO EDITOR ON GONZALES

Letter to the Editor
Submitted August 30, 2007

Thank you for publishing the commentary by Ruben Navarrette, “Gonzales bows out gracefully”

I have always held Alberto Gonzales in highest esteem as a decent, extraordinarily bright, accomplished, yet modest person, having risen from a poor Hispanic family to one of the highest positions in government.

Unfortunately, he came under the hatchet of vicious politicians, intent on dismembering the entire Bush administration under the guise of oversight.

On the firing of US attorneys, for example, the judiciary committee attacked Gonzales on process and not substance. He had the right to fire them without giving a reason. But the detractors zeroed in on the process, demanding who did what, when, where. This is a perfect perjury trap used effectively by unconscionable lawyers.
Fearing the hatchet, and endless hearings distracting from their jobs, good people are leaving the Bush administration. However, the Gonzales case is particularly sad because we lost a particularly good person