Reply #15: Yes, they are. My personal favorite is the August 12, 2005 letter ... [View All]

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.... because of when it was issued and the fact that it explicitly re-affirms the Special Counsel's AG authority at a time when Gonzales was AG.

In other words, Gonzales did not intervene or interfere with Comey. Comey instructs Margolis that ....

... Patrick J. Fitzgerald, United States Attorney for the Northern District of Illinois, dated December 30, 2003, and Feburary 6, 2004, I delegated to Mr. Fitzgerald all of the authority of the Attorney General with respect to the Department’s investigation into the alleged unauthorized disclosure of a Central Intelligence Agency employee’s identity. By virtue of the authority vested in me as Deputy Attorney General under the law, including 28 C.F.R. § 0.15(a), I delegate to you all of my authority as Acting Attorney General with respect to that investigation and Mr. Fitzgerald’s service as Special Counsel, as delineated in that correspondence. This delegation to you in no way retracts or modifies the scope of the prior delegations of authority to Mr. Fitzgerald.

Not trivial, because you can bet Gonzales wanted this investigation stopped but he, as Ashcroft, remained recused as Comey passed the torch to Margolis.


Peace.