Pelosi calls for new attorney general

"I don't think Alberto Gonzales fundamentally understood the difference between being the president's lawyer and [being] the attorney general of the United States and the premier defender of the Constitution,..."--Nancy Pelosi

By Jill Zuckman
Tribune national correspondent
Published March 19, 2007, 8:54 PM CDT

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi added her voice to the growing chorus of discontent over the Justice Department's firing of eight federal prosecutors, saying Monday, "I believe we need a new attorney general."

In a meeting with the editorial board of the Chicago Tribune and in an interview with WGN-TV, Pelosi (D-Calif.) said there was a reason Republicans feared a Democratic victory last November.