The Daily Background
| Just hours before Gonzales quit, White House & DoJ denied departure
by Arlen Parsa
Boy, Gonzales sure left Bush true to form. Lying up until the very end:
The New York Times, which first carried the scoop, reports: “As recently as Sunday afternoon, Mr. Gonzales was denying through his press spokesman, Brian Roehrkasse, that he intended to leave. Mr. Roehrkasse said Sunday afternoon that he had telephoned Mr. Gonzales about the reports circulating in Washington that a resignation was imminent, ‘and he said it wasn’t true, so I don’t know what more I can say.’
“White House spokesmen also insisted on Sunday that they did not believe that Mr. Gonzales was planning to resign. Aides to senior members of the Senate Judiciary Committee said over the weekend that they had received no suggestion from the administration that Mr. Gonzales intended to resign.”
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