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Overblown Personnel Matters
Paul Krugman writes: "Nobody is surprised to learn that the Justice Department was lying when it claimed that recently fired federal prosecutors were dismissed for poor performance. Nor is anyone surprised... ...
Rove Was Asked to Fire US Attorney
Allen Weh, the New Mexico Republican party chairman, said he complained in 2005 about then-US Attorney David Iglesias to a White House liaison who worked for Rove and asked that he be removed. Weh said... ...
Probe Into Firing of US Attorneys Reaches White House
A congressional investigation into the firings of eight US attorneys reached into the White House on Friday, with Democrats saying that they'll call in President Bush's former counsel Harriet Miers and... ...
Department of Injustice
Paul Krugman writes: "The Gonzales Eight were fired because they wouldn’t go along with the Bush administration’s politicization of justice. But statistical evidence suggests that many other prosecutors... ...
Justice officials will be asked to testify in firings
Knoxville News Sentinel 03/08/07 The Senate Judiciary Committee will ask several Justice Department officials to testify about the firing of eight federal prosecutors and could issue subpoenas if they... ...
Senate Republicans Deliver Sharp Criticism of Gonzales
Senior Senate Republicans today delivered scathing criticism of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales for his handling of the firing of eight US attorneys, joining Democrats in chagrin that the prosecutors... ...
The Gonzales Eight
"It already seemed clear that the Bush administration's purge had trampled on prosecutorial independence," writes the New York Times. "Now Congress and the Justice Department need to investigate possible... ...
The battle over fired US attorneys
Christian Science Monitor 03/07/07 The Bush administration’s controversial firing of eight US attorneys sets up a major clash between the White House and the new Congress, as Democrats step up efforts... ...
Don’t lean on me
Mother Jones by Leigh Ferrara 03/06/07 Last spring, an amendment was slipped into a bill reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act by Senator Arlen Specter’s chief counsel, Michael O’Neill, who was reportedly acting... ...
White House OK'd Mass Firings
The White House approved the firings of seven US attorneys late last year after senior Justice Department officials identified the prosecutors they believed were not doing enough to carry out President... ...