Embattled Gonzales Seeks To Shore Up Support

Embattled Gonzales Seeks To Shore Up Support

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, facing another tough week amid calls for his ouster, has offered a mea culpa to the nation's 93 U.S. attorneys for the way the Justice Department fired eight of their colleagues.

During the conference call Friday, planned as a pep talk to raise morale at a Justice Department tainted by the firings and the
FBI's misuse of the Patriot Act, Gonzales apologized for how the dismissals were handled and for suggesting there were problems with the prosecutors' job performances, according to an official familiar with the conversation.

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