Document dump here: Documents highlight Gonzales' role in the firings

[babylonsister]

http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/nation/16964237.htm

Documents highlight Gonzales' role in the firings
By Ron Hutcheson, Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev
McClatchy Newspapers


WASHINGTON - Internal Bush administration e-mails suggest that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales may have played a bigger role than he has acknowledged in the plan to fire several U.S. attorneys.

The e-mails, delivered to Congress Friday night, show that Gonzales attended an hourlong meeting on the firings on Nov. 27, 2006 - 10 days before seven U.S. attorneys were told to resign. The attorney general's participation in the session calls into question his assertion that he was essentially in the dark about the firings.

At a news conference last week, Gonzales said that he was aware that his aides were working on a plan to fire several U.S. attorneys but that he left the details to Kyle Sampson, his then-chief of staff, and other aides. Sampson agreed on Friday to testify about his role in the firings at a Senate hearing next week.

"We never had a discussion about where things stood," Gonzales said on March 13. "What I knew was that there was an ongoing effort that was led by Mr. Sampson ... to ascertain where we could make improvements in U.S. attorney performances around the country."

The Nov. 27 meeting in Gonzales' conference room came as Sampson was still trying to decide which federal prosecutors would be asked to step down. His final list targeted seven U.S. attorneys, who were told on Dec. 7 that they were being ousted. Another prosecutor had been asked to step down months earlier.

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[global1]

1. Has A Deal Been Cut Between The Dems And *CO?.........

are they giving us the head of Gonzo to save Rove's and all of *Co's asses?

Given this document dump and Sampson's impending testimony next Thursday - I don't expect Gonzo to make it past next weekend as AG.

[John Q. Citizen]

3. They certainly are dropping a dime on Gonzales' head. I think the

Congress knows what they want. They want Rove to take an oath to tell the truth, and then they want to ask him some questions in the bright klieg lights of day. And I have the feeling they already have a lot of questions they want to ask him and they already know the answers to a lot of questions they want to ask him.

They already think of Gonzales as "almost gone." He Flat out lied to congress it looks like.

[EVDebs]

2. Related DU post. Mentions martial law tie-in you might want to read

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x3179041

[saltpoint]

4. If these documents demonstrate that Gonzales lied to the U.S. Congress

the Republicans who aren't rising to his defense now will rise to demand his ouster.

Gonzales is not much loved by even Republicans. His days are numbered.