Senate Judiciary Committee w/Alberto Gonzales-7/24/07 Pt31

Part 31 of 32 Senate Judiciary Committee with Alberto Gonzales. Senator Specter's third round of questions to Alberto Gonzales. 7/24/07 KEEP IN MIND: Gonzales was given each and every question he would be asked beforehand. Nothing was a surprise - there was absolutely NO "GOTCHA!" Transcript of this portion of the hearing: SPECTER: Just a few concluding comments. Attorney General Gonzales, I would ask you to take a close look at the functioning of your department or perhaps consult with others to give you an objective view as to what is happening. The consensus appears to be that the morale is at an all-time low from what has happened. The US attorneys around the country don't know when the next shoe is going to drop, although perhaps replacements or requests for resignations have been tempered or slowed down or perhaps even eliminated because of the focus of this committee's inquiry. But I would ask you to take a look at that morale issue. GONZALES: I will do so. SPECTER: An d then I'd ask you to take a look at how the department is functioning generally. I mentioned the oxycontin case only because it received a lot of newspaper publicity. SPECTER: And the case involving the homicide where you asked for the death penalty also received a lot of publicity. But it looks to me candidly, Attorney General Gonzales, as if the department's dysfunctional. When you have many people killed and many people addicted from a dangerous drug, where there is malicious misleading of the ...

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