Raw Story: Bush DUMPS Skeletor from his short list of cronies to replace A.G. Fredo

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Chertoff out as contender to succeed Gonzales
Nick Juliano
Published: Thursday September 6, 2007

http://rawstory.com//news/2007/Chertoff_out_as_AG_contender_0906.html

Republican source speculates DHS secretary wanted to avoid bruising confirmation

President Bush has apparently dumped Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff from his short list of possible replacements for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who announced his resignation last week under a cloud of scandal.

The White House has been meeting privately with Republican and Democratic leaders in the Senate about the next attorney general, whose name is expected to be announced Sept. 17, on Gonzales's last day.

Roll Call, the Capitol Hill newspaper, obtained a list of the potential replacements, which it published Thursday. The candidates are former Solicitor General Ted Olson; former Attorney General Bill Barr; former Deputy Attorney General George Terwilliger; D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence Silberman; former Deputy Attorney General Larry Thompson; and Michael Mukasey, a former judge on the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Notably absent from that list is Chertoff, whose name was mentioned most by politicians and pundits in the hours and days after Gonzales announced his resignation.

[Virginia Dare]

1. Leahy must have told them NFW...n/t

[ChairmanAgnostic]

2. do you honestly think BushCo cares a wit what Leahy thinks or says?

If only to take it as a warning and a clue of how to oppose him, maybe, but substantively? never. They care nothing about bipartisanship. I suspect the skeletor was mighty afeared that some spineless democrats might grow one.

[annabanana]

3. Are any of these choices legitimate?

i.e. Have some experience outside of working for GW? Less then rabid ideologues?

[struggle4progress]

4. Bush Expected to Nominate Attorney General Next Week (WaPo)

Former Solicitor General Is Called a Leading Candidate

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, September 8, 2007; Page A02

President Bush is expected to choose a replacement for Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales by the middle of next week, and former solicitor general Theodore B. Olson has emerged as one of the leading contenders for the job ...

Other candidates still in the running include former deputy attorney general George J. Terwilliger III and D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Laurence H. Silberman, according to the sources, who declined to be identified ...

Others whose names continue to be mentioned in congressional and political circles include Pepsico general counsel Larry D. Thompson, a former deputy attorney general; Solicitor General Paul D. Clement; and Verizon general counsel William P. Barr, who served as attorney general for Bush's father. A person close to Barr said yesterday, however, that he does not appear to be on the short list ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/07/AR2007090702560.html

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5. Was Gonzo fearing being brought back to investigation for further questioning?

I mean what was the reason for his resigning? "spending more time with the family"? ala Tenet? & Rove?