Re: OT: A Justice Department investigation

On Fri, 15 Jun 2007 16:41:09 -0500, timepixdc <timepixdc@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

In article <qe8473tt5hbhreecruo5gqetd0rovreqqb@xxxxxxx>,
Carl Carlson <cc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

On Thu, 14 Jun 2007 22:48:48 -0500, timepixdc <timepixdc@xxxxxxxx>
wrote:

A Justice Department investigation into the firings of U.S. attorneys is
looking at whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales inappropriately
discussed the ousters in a meeting his former White House liaison called
"uncomfortable."

The two Justice officials leading the probe confirmed, in a letter
released Thursday by the Senate Judiciary Committee, that they were
examining the March meeting between Gonzales and former aide Monica M.
Goodling.

"This is to confirm that the scope of our investigation does include
this matter," Justice Department Inspector General Glenn A. Fine and
Office of Professional Responsibility counsel H. Marshall Jarrett wrote
in the short letter, dated Wednesday.

The inquiry's expanded focus was revealed as President Bush signed into
a law a measure preventing the Justice Department from installing U.S.
attorneys without Senate or judicial review. The law fixes a tweak to
the USA Patriot Act that the Justice Department made last year, which
touched off the firestorm over the prosecutors.

Last month, Goodling testified before a House inquiry that Gonzales
sought to review the sequence of events in the controversial firings in
a brief meeting in his office shortly before she resigned from the
Justice Department. She questioned whether it was a conversation they
should be having at a time when lawmakers were focusing on conflicting
accounts about the dismissals.

"It made me a little uncomfortable," Goodling testified at the May 23
House Judiciary Committee hearing. "I just did not know if it was
appropriate for us to both be discussing our recollections of what had
happened."

- Associated Press


Not true.

Doctored post.

Only if you've doctored it because it's from the Associated Press.


Prove it
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