Gonzales Said To Stonewall a GOP Query, Probe of Leaks Are at Center of Inquiries From the Right

[babylonsister]

http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=50228

Gonzales Said To Stonewall a GOP Query
Probe of Leaks Are at Center of Inquiries From the Right

BY JOSH GERSTEIN - Staff Reporter of the Sun
March 12, 2007



The top Republican on the House's main investigative committee, Rep. Thomas Davis of Virginia, is charging the Justice Department with stonewalling his inquiries about the FBI's assertion that it closed several leak investigations because of a lack of cooperation on the part of other government officials.

In January, Mr. Davis asked the Justice Department about a report in The New York Sun that at least three leak inquiries were shut down after officials at the "victim agency" ignored phone calls and canceled meetings with FBI agents assigned to the probes. The agents said some requests for information were rebuffed for more than a year.

On Friday, the lawmaker, the ranking Republican member of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, sent a sharply worded letter to Attorney General Gonzales, expressing "aggravation" at the Justice Department's handling of questions about the aborted investigations.

"General Gonzales, it would be an understatement to say I am frustrated and disappointed by your department's response," Mr. Davis wrote. Mr. Davis said he would agree to procedures for a classified briefing, but that the Justice Department replied that "the concern is not classification." Mr. Davis's letter also disclosed that the director of the FBI, Robert Mueller, is conducting an internal review of the bureau's handling of leak cases.

The Republican congressman's complaints about Justice Department intransigence come as the attorney general faces mounting criticism. Yesterday, Senator Schumer urged Mr. Gonzales to resign.

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[Me.]

1. Let's See

A republican being stonewalled about leak inquiries...he must've been looking to nail some dems as the leakers, and the DOJ found out it was them, members of the administration and don't want to/can't say.

[Fridays Child]

2. You can bet...

...that, for whatever reason Justice stonewalled the probe, it was a completely self-serving maneuver.

[Me.]

4. Somebody Should Tell The Sun

They're such a clueless paper they can't even give them away. They've been delivering a free stack to my building every day for 2 weeks now, and there they sit, on the lobby table, untouched. I did take a couple, I needed to wrap glasses I was packing up.

[peacetalksforall]

8. Tell the Sun what? Is this the only place where this news item has been

published? If yes, tell them what? Seems they got a clue about this. Sorry, I don't know The Sun. But, this is interesting reporting.

[Supersedeas]

6. Repig reaching for something/anything upon which to vent their self-righteous indignation

[spotbird]

3. Never mind

I thought it was about the AG firings.

[Norquist Nemesis]

5. "after officials at the "victim agency" ignored phone calls ..."

Now which "agency" would be described as a "victim" by a Con? And which "agency" has shown a propensity to simply ignore whatever it chooses? hmmmmm...

[rodeodance]

7. I bet the shreaders are burning HOT at Justice!!

[Auntie Bush]

9. They have been burning hot 24/7 for 6 1/2 years now.

This administration has to burn/shred more than they archive. They probably have a huge team of professional shredders that work overtime!
Plus a full time night shift!

I bet they also have a team of writers who rewrite/scrub many of the shredded documents to place in their archives. You know...the ones for the president's fake library of make believe history/legacy of the bush* mis-administration.

Too bits all the files for Cheney's crooked energy meetings have been shredded. If some still exist...they are probably filed under "How to LOOT Iraq Oil and Treasure for Dummies"