E-Mail Shows Plan for Firing Prosecutors (AP)

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E-Mail Shows Plan for Firing Prosecutors
By Associated Press

March 13, 2007, 4:50 PM EDT

WASHINGTON -- The Justice Department laid out an elaborate, five-step plan
for firing seven U.S. attorneys on Dec. 7, and the White House legislative,
political and communications offices signed off on it, according to e-mails
released Tuesday.

Titled "Plan for Replacing Certain United States Attorneys," the step-by-step
instructions were sent by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' chief of staff,
Kyle Sampson, as an attachment to an e-mail. Sampson resigned Tuesday.
The e-mail was released Tuesday by the House Judiciary Committee.

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Step 3 was prescient, its title underscored: "Prepare to Withstand Political
Upheaval." It predicted the fired prosecutors would make "strenuous" efforts
to save their jobs by appealing to other officials in the Bush administration.
The memo contained responses to likely questions from those fired.

"Recipients of such 'appeals' must respond identically," the memo said, as
follows:

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Source: Dec. 4, 2006 e-mail from Justice Department chief of staff Kyle
Sampson to Associate Attorney General William Mercer and White House
officials William K. Kelley and Harriet Miers.

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