May 16, 2007 11:19AM 

# Gonzales’s Gambit 

By [Tim Lynch](https://www.cato.org/people/tim-lynch) 

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[Still more reasons ](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051501945.html)why [Gonzales needs to go.](https://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=8221)

When Attorney General John Ashcroft and FBI Director Robert Mueller are [threatening to resign](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/05/15/AR2007051500864.html) because then-White House Counsel Gonzales is seeking surveillance powers that go “too far” … you start to get a sense as to Gonzales’s views on state power.

Cato will be [hosting a debate ](https://www.cato.org/event.php?eventid=3806)on the NSA surveillance program and more next week. For additional background, read [this](http://www.catostore.org/index.asp?fa=ProductDetails&method=cats&scid=15&pid=1441309).

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