Email shows Gonzales "unhappy" with McNulty's testimony

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http://www.usnews.com/usnews/blogs/news_blog/070319/exclusive_why_doj_is_sweating.htm

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On February 6, McNulty acknowledged during contentious testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee that Cummins had been fired because the administration wanted to name Timothy Griffin, a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove, who had also worked for the Republican National Committee. But McNulty said the firings of the other prosecutors were related to their poor performance.

During the hearings, Republican Sen. Jeff Sessions of Alabama posed the following question to McNulty: "First, Bud Cummins has said that he was told he had done nothing wrong and he was simply being asked to resign to let someone else have the job. Does he have it right?"
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In the E-mail to McNulty, Roehrkasse said the attorney general disagreed with his characterization of Cummins's firing, because Gonzales believed that it was at least in part performance related.

The E-mail shows an internal rift between top leadership over how to portray the firings, and indeed the reasons for the firings.
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