WASHINGTON — Two weeks earlier on Capitol Hill, there was a groundswell of Republican demands — public and private — that President Bush pardon the convicted Scooter Libby. Last week, as Alberto Gonzales came under withering Democratic fire, there were no public GOP declarations of support amid private predictions of the attorney general's demise.

Republican leaders in Congress (asking not to be quoted by name) early last week predicted Gonzales would fall because the ...

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