Gonzales's successor will face daunting challenges« Thread Started on Sept 2, 2007, 2:30pm » --------------------------------------------------------------------------------Gonzales's successor will face daunting challenges at a scandal-plagued agencyBy Emma SchwartzPosted 9/2/07read at source> http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/artic ... ice.htmThe resignation of embattled U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was never a question of if but of when. So when Gonzales finally announced last week that he will leave the Justice Department, his departure offered a glimmer of hope that the beleaguered agency would at last have a chance to remake an image sullied by months of scandals. Alberto Gonzales(Paul J. Richards—AFP/Getty Images)Gonzales's inability to explain—or even, he said, remember—whether politics played an undue role in the department's hiring, firing, and prosecution decisions turned the former Texas Supreme Court judge and presidential confidant into a symbol of all that was wrong inside the 110,000-person bureaucracy. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------