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US Attorneys: Gonzales Prepares To Testify
Truthout Links:
Wall Street Journal: Gonzales Deputy, in Crossfire, Looks
for Quiet Exit
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607S.shtml
With Attorney General Alberto Gonzales on the ropes over the firings of eight US attorneys, his deputy, Paul J. McNulty, is quietly testing the waters for a new job. He may need one, if critics have their way.
Wall Street
Journal: Justice Probes Abramoff Ties to White
House
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607E.shtml
The Justice Department's Public Integrity Section is investigating connections between disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the White House, a probe that may be affected by missing White House emails.
Washington Post:
Ex-DOJ Official's Statements Contradict Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607K.shtml
The former Justice Department official who carried out the firings of eight US attorneys last year told Congress that several of the prosecutors had no performance problems and that a memo on the firings was distributed at a November 27 meeting attended by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. Gonzales has said that he never saw any documents about the firings and that he had "lost confidence" in the prosecutors because of performance problems.
Los Angeles
Times: Rove, Others Were Warned to Save Emails
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041607M.shtml
Karl Rove and other White House employees were cautioned in employee manuals, memos and briefings to carefully save any emails that might discuss official matters, even if those messages came from private email accounts, the White House disclosed Friday. Despite these cautions, emails from Rove and others discussing official business may have been deleted and are now missing.
The New York
Times Editorial: The Fantasy Behind the Scandal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041507C.shtml
The New York Times writes: "The more we learn about the White House's purge of United States attorneys, the more a single thread runs through it: the Bush administration's campaign to transform the minor problem of voter fraud into a supposed national scourge."
McClatchy
Newspapers: On Tuesday, All Eyes Will Be on
Gonzales
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041507D.shtml
For Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, his testimony Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee is all about him, and whether he can restore enough credibility to keep his job. But many of the Democrats who control Congress and the committee have already written off Gonzales.
CSPAN VIDEO & Associated
Press: Leahy - 'I Do Not Believe the White House'
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041207A.shtml
President Bush's aides are lying about White House emails sent on a Republican account that might have been lost, Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy suggested Thursday, vowing to subpoena those documents if the administration fails to cough them up.
New York Times: New
Documents on Attorney Firings Contradict DOJ Official's
Testimony
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041407B.shtml
A Justice Department email released on Friday shows that the former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales proposed replacement candidates for seven United States attorneys nearly a year before those prosecutors were fired, in contrast to testimony last month in which the aide said that no successors were considered before the firings.
The Hill :
Senate Dems Warn Gonzales: We Want Real Answers
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/041307C.shtml
The Senate Judiciary Committee on Thursday authorized subpoenas for documents from the White House and the Department of Justice relating to the firing of eight US attorneys last year. Senate Democrats threatened to issue the subpoenas if Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is not forthcoming in his Tuesday testimony before the committee.
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