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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Resigns
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has officially resigned Monday morning. He did not want to make the resignation official until he sat with President George W. Bush and discussed it with him first.
His resignation will be announced at a press conference scheduled at 10:30am.
This ends a controversial tenure for Gonzales as nine U.S. attorneys were fired and the nature of efforts to spy on U.S. citizens. His support in Congress began to wane as his responses to wiretap questioning garnered responses that led Congress members to assume Gonzales was committing perjury.
The departure leaves Bush with a key cabinet opening nearing the end of his second term. As controversy around Gonzales mounted, so has speculation about possible replacements. Among the names mentioned by lawmakers and their aides in recent weeks: Homeland Security secretary Michael Chertoff; former deputy attorney general James Comey and former deputy attorney Larry Thompson.
