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Senators come up short on Rove smoking gun

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee may have spent Thursday grilling Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' former chief of staff, but many of their questions were directed at a man not even in the room -- Karl Rove.

Clearly frustrated about not being able to question Rove directly, senators used Kyle Sampson's voluntary appearance before the committee to discern how much President Bush's trusted political consigliere was involved in the controversial firings of eight U.S. attorneys last year.

Sampson told senators the plan to replace the attorneys had been reviewed by Rove, which Sampson believed he needed to do before they were fired.

But ultimately, Sampson's testimony provided no smoking gun pointing to Rove.

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