{"id":2155,"date":"2007-08-27T11:38:00","date_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/bush-says-gonzales-was-treated-unfairly\/"},"modified":"2007-08-27T11:38:00","modified_gmt":"2007-08-27T17:38:00","slug":"bush-says-gonzales-was-treated-unfairly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/2007\/08\/bush-says-gonzales-was-treated-unfairly\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush says Gonzales was treated unfairly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RtMMNIBJ6eI\/AAAAAAAADOk\/IzDdG1Vj-sA\/s1600-h\/Bush,+George.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_IabUCQmoheQ\/RtMMNIBJ6eI\/AAAAAAAADOk\/IzDdG1Vj-sA\/s200\/Bush,+George.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5103436222371064290\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\">President Bush<\/a> today defended outgoing Attorney General <a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/government\/gonzales-bio.html\" target=\"_blank\">Alberto Gonzales<\/a>, saying he had been treated unfairly while announcing that he had accepted his resignation.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">\u201cAfter months of unfair treatment that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department, Judge Gonzales decided to resign his position, and I accept his decision,\u201d Bush said at a brief news conference in <st1:state st=\"on\"><st1:place st=\"on\">Texas<\/st1:place><\/st1:state>. \u201cIt\u2019s sad that when we live in a time when a talented and honorable person like Alberto Gonzales is impeding (sic) from doing important work because his good name was dragged through the mud for political reasons.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Bush called Gonzales \u201ca man of integrity, decency and principle.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><o:p> <\/o:p><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\">You can watch Bush make his statement by clicking <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tpmmuckraker.com\/archives\/004008.php\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. You can read Gonzales\u2019 resignation letter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.talkingpointsmemo.com\/docs\/gonzales-resigns\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, and read the text of the statement he gave earlier today <a href=\"http:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/stories\/0807\/5525.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Bush today defended outgoing Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, saying he had been treated unfairly while announcing that he had accepted his resignation. \u201cAfter months of unfair treatment that has created a harmful distraction at the Justice Department, Judge Gonzales decided to resign his position, and I accept his decision,\u201d Bush said at a brief [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2155","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2155"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2155\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2155"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2155"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nmpolitics.net\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2155"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}