Probe of Prosecutor Firings Intensifies

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The probe into the Bush administration's firings of U.S. attorneys intensified Monday as lawmakers ordered two more ousted officials to tell their stories and the Justice Department said Republican Sen. Pete Domenici had complained repeatedly to the attorney general about one of the prosecutors.

The administration has said eight prosecutors were told to leave, all but one for performance-related reasons. However, Democrats have suggested ever more pointedly that politics was behind many of the dismissals, and the Domenici revelation fueled that idea.

Six of those fired, meanwhile, issued a stiff defense of their conduct and implied that they had had differences with Justice Department officials in Washington.

``We leave with no regrets, because we served well and upheld the best traditions of the Department of Justice,'' the group said in a joint statement released in advance of a Tuesday hearing by a House subcommittee.

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1. Can you imagine what would have happened to this situation

if the democrats had not taken over the house and senate. Not a darn thing. I am so glad the types of injustices such as this and the privatization of WR is being investigated.