Anyone associated with the current administration is contaminated, whether they (tongue in check) are totally innocent or otherwise.
Gonzales used and abused his situation - the petty arguing about the detail can be left to the swamp. He was probably unqualified to be AG and lacked experience. He was dragged from the Bush/Rove Texas Political Boot Camp And Longstanding Friends Club and stuffed into office.
Gonzales is probably in good company with the worst of AG's and doubt there has been worse in recent times, other than Mitchell in the Nixon admin.
Officials like Gonzales are there to serve and conduct the biz of government in an honorable and ethical manner - Gonzales failed that test a number of years ago and the downwards spiral continued.
Generally the current administration is impotent and pointless. The prime foot soldiers who were also main conspirators are being excused from duty before being "captured" - Rumsfeld, Rove, Wolfowitz, Libby et al and now Gonzales. All of these people forgot the words "serve" and "honor" and played a role in causing serious damage to the US.
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- all need to be prosecuted for whatever roles they played - there is no difference between them and other deviants like Saddam's henchmen. Wearing a suit does not change the man.