DOJ Emails Illustrate Plan to Mislead Congress

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http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/032907J.shtml

DOJ Emails Illustrate Plan to Mislead Congress
By Jason Leopold
t r u t h o u t | Report

Thursday 29 March 2007

Embattled Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and his closest advisers have stated repeatedly over the past two months that the selective firings of eight United States attorneys last year were justified because President Bush has the authority to purge federal prosecutors at will, a fact that is not under dispute.

However, the common thread in the thousands of pages of documents released by the Department of Justice in conjunction with a Congressional probe into the US attorney dismissals is that top officials in the DOJ who worked behind the scenes believed that they were doing something improper in selectively dismissing the attorneys and acted with a clear intent to deceive lawmakers if any questions into reasons for the firings arose.