Uncovered Emails Say That Gonzales Is Basically A Liar

   The Thursday afternoon news is looking like this.

 

LAURIE KELLMAN   |  Posted March 15, 2007

The Senate Judiciary Committee Thursday cleared the way for subpoenas compelling five Justice Department officials and six of the federal prosecutors they fired to tell the story of a purge of U.S. attorneys that has prompted demands for the ouster of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
The voice vote to authorize the panel to issue subpoenas amounts to insurance against the possibility that Gonzales could retract his permission to let the aides testify voluntarily, or impose strict conditions.      Source

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   Another Email Says that Gonzales Not Straight With Investigators

Statements On Firings of Prosecutors Are Key Issue

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, March 15,2007

In testimony on Jan. 18, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Justice Department had no intention of avoiding Senate input on the hiring of U.S. attorneys.

Just a month earlier, D. Kyle Sampson, who was then Gonzales's chief of staff, laid out a plan to do just that. In an e-mail, he detailed a strategy for evading Arkansas Democrats in installing Tim Griffin, a former GOP operative and protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove, as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock.

"We should gum this to death," Sampson wrote to a White House aide on Dec. 19. "[A]sk the senators to give Tim a chance . . . then we can tell them we'll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in 'good faith,' of course."   WaPo

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House, Senate Showdown Looming With the White House?

   The U.S. Congress could be heading for a showdown with the White House in the near future over the prosecutor purge that has taken place.

   Congress is set to meet with Attorney General Gonzales in the coming week to talk about his reasoning behind the purge but exactly where and when has not been determined.

  The investigations are continuing by both the House and the Senate.

   Some of the Senate and House lawmakers have met with Fred Fielding ( White House counsel ) over their desire to get their hands on some documents and interviews with some of the White House officials. They wish to speak with Rove, for one. It seems that Fielding put them off by saying that he would get back to them after speaking with Bush about the matter. It's possible that the Bush Crime Family could invoke executive privilege, which would mean war with the legitimate branches of government.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Pat Leahy (D-VT) put it: “Frankly, I don’t care whether Fielding says he’s going to allow people or not. We’ll subpoena the people we want.... If they want to defy the subpoena, then you get into a stonewall situation I suspect they don’t want to have.”

And so this morning, the Senate committee will vote on whether to issue subpoenas to Karl Rove, former White House counsel Harriet Miers, and William Kelley, a former top aide to Miers.

We'll know tomorrow, it seems, whether they'll have to use them.       Source

   I wonder if Cheney has ordered the Shredder Truck to come by one again?

 

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