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Senior Justice official announces resignation |
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By Elana Schor
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Posted: 05/14/07 07:30 PM [ET] |
A high-profile head rolled at the Justice Department yesterday, as No. 2 official Paul McNulty announced his resignation from an agency mired in turmoil over the mass firings of U.S. attorneys.
McNulty fanned the flames of the scandal by admitting early on that some of the fired federal prosecutors were not asked to leave based on poor performance, as Justice originally asserted. Lawyers for Monica Goodling, a resigned senior aide to
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, later accused McNulty of pinning his uninformed performance under questioning on incomplete briefings from Goodling and other Justice aides.
“It seems ironic that Paul McNulty, who at least leveled with the [Judiciary] committee, goes, while Gonzales, who stonewalled the committee, is still in charge,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), a lead investigator in the firings scandal, said in a statement.
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