The revolving door in US Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' office keeps turning. Today, it is Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, a graduate of Capital University Law School in Columbus, Ohio, who is on his way out. According to
Answers.com, he served as Chairman of Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales' Advisory Committee. McNulty is noted for overseeing the prosecution of high-profile cases, including those against terror suspects
John Walker Lindh,
Ahmed Omar Abu Ali and
Zacarias Moussaoui. McNulty previously directed President Bush's transition team for the
Department of Justice and then served as Principal Associate Attorney General. From
1990 to
1993, under President
George H. W. Bush, McNulty was the Justice Department's director of policy and its chief spokesman. He was the spokesperson for the House Judiciary Committee Republicans during the Clinton impeachment.
According to the
CNN, McNulty cited personal reasons for his resignation.
"The financial realities of college-age children and two decades of public service lead me to a long overdue transition in my career," he wrote in his resignation letter.
His resignation comes amid a controversy over the department's firing of eight U.S. attorneys last year, a move that has sparked a firestorm on Capitol Hill. He was one of the key figures in meetings and discussions about the shakeup, and investigators from the House and Senate Judiciary committees grilled him for more than eight hours in April.
In a statement announcing McNulty's resignation, Gonzales praised him as "an effective manager of day-to-day operations" since he took office in November 2005.
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