LEtters on the President's defense of Gonzalez, the Attorney General who acted like a non-attorney and without any air of generalship...

"The shame of the Bush administration is that it allows cronyism and loyalty to trump integrity and competence in many of its appointments in an effort to infest all federal departments with its misguided ideology.

That the president's politics will change over the remaining 18 months of his administration as a result of the resignations of Karl Rove and Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales is probably too much to hope for.

Congress should not view these resignations as substitutes for accountability and should continue to pursue all legitimate charges. Patricia A. Weller

Westminster, Md., Aug. 28, 2007

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To the Editor:

President Bush's assertion that Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales has been treated unfairly is wonderfully ironic. No attorney general has been more unfair to the American people and to the Constitution of this great country.

The only unfairness here is that it is highly unlikely that Mr. Gonzales will be prosecuted for subverting the Constitution and for committing human rights abuses as part of his advocacy of and support for torture at home and abroad.


Watertown, Mass., Aug. 28, 2007

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To the Editor:

Albert R. Gonzales seemed to be a paradox: an attorney general who emphasized the limitation and restriction rather than the protection of human rights and freedoms.

It is to be hoped that the next attorney general our country has will support people's rights and freedoms rather than deny them.

Isn't that the way America is supposed to be, and what makes it so great?

Huntington Beach, Calif., Aug. 28, 2007

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To the Editor:

That Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's "good name was dragged through the mud," as President Bush suggests, is more a result of the company he chose to keep than any amorphous political reasons.

Mr. Gonzales simply hung out with the wrong crowd and, influenced by its members, tarnished his own, perhaps once fine, name.

It's too bad our Constitution has been tarnished along with it.


Bloomington, Ind. Aug. 28, 2007"