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...Attorneys scandal has raised many more questions than it has answered, and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' prepared testimony was designed to make those questions even harder to answer. But experts agree on one aspect of the controversy. "Have [Administration officials] violated the Presidential Records Act?" asks Scott Nelson, a lawyer who represented the estate of Richard Nixon in a fight over his official papers. "There's no other conclusion I can reach." Says Tom Blanton, director of the National Security Archives: "The only question is whether they did it intentionally or sloppily...
...interrupted and challenged him. When Specter was asking Gonzales about conflicts between his opening statement and comments he made at a press conference earlier this year, Specter said, as an aside, that he was sure that Gonzales had prepared heavily for this testimony, as several newspapers had reported. The Attorney General cut in and said, "I prepare for every hearing, Senator...
...other Republicans were not so charitable. Senator Jeff Sessions of Alabama, a key Bush loyalist who early today said that Gonzales's essential virtue "will show through," was tough on the Attorney General. Sessions took particular issue with Gonzales' statement that he could not remember the specifics of a November 27 meeting of top Justice Department officials to discuss the dismissals, only 10 days before they were carried out. During the lunch break, Sessions told TIME, "I'm troubled, very troubled that the Attorney General just flatly stated he had no recollections of the meeting in November...
...actually been the result of general personality and ideological conflicts rather than the performance issues that the Justice Department has pointed to, but Gonzales rejected that claim. "Why is your story changing?" a clearly frustrated Senator Charles Grassley of Iowa asked after lunch, referring to the fact that the Attorney General now accepts responsibility for the firings...
...Still, even if all Republicans on the committee turned on him, it may take more than that to do Gonzales in. "His survival is in the hands of the President," Democratic Senator Dick Durbin of Illinois pointed out during the break. So in the end, the Attorney General's fate may rest with just one Republican - the one in the White House...