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Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez Resigns
United States Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the top official in the Justice Department, announced that he will resign from his post on September 17th. A White House spokesperson said that the President had accepted his resignation with regret.
Over the last several months, Gonzales has faced a lot of criticism from Congress. Gonzales was called to testify to Congress about a controversy that erupted last year, when nine United States attorneys were fired. Critics said that the attorneys had been fired for disagreeing with the President's policies, but Mr. Gonzales claimed that the attorneys were dismissed because of poor performance in their jobs.
During President Bush's first term in office, Gonzales served as his Chief Counsel, the top legal advisor to the White House. In that post, some people criticized him for memos he wrote about the use of harsh interrogation techniques for terrorism suspects. In 2005, he sparked controversy again for defending President Bush's program of wiretapping phone calls without a warrant.
Many Democrats, and some Republicans, have said they are glad Mr. Gonzales is resigning. But President Bush and many other Republicans say that Mr. Gonzales did nothing wrong. Gonzales is the son of Mexican immigrants and is the first Hispanic person ever to serve as U.S. Attorney General. He is the fourth top-ranking Bush administration official to resign since last November.
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