Abramoff Emails Raise New Questions in Attorney Firings

[PhilipShore]

By Matt Renner
t r u t h o u t | Report
Wednesay 28 March 2007

A Congressional probe into the dismissals of eight US attorneys last year has raised new questions about the role that disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff played in the 2003 demotion of Frederick Black, the former US attorney in Guam.

Many of the White House and DOJ officials currently under scrutiny in the US attorney firings played a role in Black's replacement, including then Counsel to the President Alberto Gonzales, his former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson and President Bush.

However, letters sent Monday by Congressman Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), chairman of House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, to the RNC regarding White House officials' use of outside email accounts to conduct official administration business call into question the conclusions of the inspector general's report.

Waxman's letter included documentary evidence that a former aide to Karl Rove and Abramoff used an RNC email account to communicate with the convicted lobbyist about official government business in order to avoid leaving a paper trail of their exchanges.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032807A.shtml

[Erika]

1. That is dirt n/t

[John Q. Citizen]

2. If they changed the prosecutor to protect the crimes of Abramhof then that's obstruction.

[aquart]

3. Only obstruction?

What about accessory?

[PhilipShore]

4. Interesting, I never thought of that

:)

[seafan]

5. Abramoff's last email before reporting to prison: "Unfortunately, things are going to get worse..."

November 15, 2006

Subject: My last email for a while

My dear friends,

I hope that you will forgive the impersonal nature of this email. I write this to you on the eve of my incarceration. I am not sure how long I will be in prison, but hope that it is not too long before we have a chance to see each other again.

First, I wanted to thank you for standing by Pam, the kids and me during this very difficult period. Unfortunately, things are going to get worse (starting today no doubt) before they get better, but I am confident that ultimately the turmoil will subside and we will have our lives back. One day, G-D willing, we will know why all of this had to happen. In the meantime, we soldier on, bolstered in no small measure by your friendship. ....

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Abramoff Emails Raise New Questions in Attorney Firings, March 28, 2007