CONYERS Has His Sights On Gonzales: "The Attorney General Is Too Close To The President"

[kpete]

Gonzales role in Cheney oversight dodge probed Michael Roston
Published: Wednesday June 27, 2007

The role of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales in Vice President Dick Cheney's efforts to escape scrutiny for his office's dealings with classified information is being probed by a pair of House committees.

"An Executive Order signed by President Bush in 2003 directs the National Archives to oversee a uniform, government-wide system for protecting national security information. For six months, the National Archives has sought unsuccessfully to receive clarification from the attorney general regarding the OVP's contention that it is exempt from the order because it is not an entity within the executive branch of our government," notes a press release sent to RAW STORY by the House Judiciary Committee and the Committee on Oversight and Government Reform.

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"Due to conflicting statements from your department, the status of your review of this matter is unclear...the Information Security Oversight Office has received no response to its inquiry. In response to a FOIA request (by the Federation of American Scientists), the department's Office of Legal Counsel stated on June 4,2007, that no documents exist relating to your department's response to Mr. Leonard's letter...Last week, however, a spokesperson for the Department of Justice stated that this matter is under review in the department."

Rep. Conyers (D-MI) warned in the statement that, "Once again, we appear to have an attorney general who is too close to the White House for his own - or the people's - good."

more at:
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/Gonzales_role_in_Cheney_oversight_dodge_0627.html
Letter:
http://judiciary.house.gov/Media/PDFs/gonzales.2007.6.27.pdf


June 27, 2007
Back to the hot seat

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is heading back to Capitol Hill -- to testify again.

Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said Gonzales originally agreed to appear before his committee on July 18, but then asked to reschedule. Leahy said he hopes Gonzales will agree to appear on July 26, although no date has been confirmed.

http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/0607/Back_to_the_hot_seat.html

[AndreaCG]

1. Good but what's the next step?

Conyers usually has guts, what about the rest of Congress?

[OzarkDem]

4. Gonzales good impeachment target

It may be better to start with him. There's plenty of ammo and getting rid of him will allow DOJ and FBI to begin investigating real crimes again, esp. those against the GOP.

[porphyrian]

2. Bust them, Congressman. - n/t

[EV_Ares]

3. Warnings, threats, lots of talk. This will be good if he follows through

on it. Otherwise, the same old thing.