Justice officials go to Hill for questioning as White House backs Gonzales anew

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Source: AP

WASHINGTON (AP) - Congress pursued more details from another senior Justice Department official Friday in the firing of federal prosecutors and inconsistencies in Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' account of it as the White House predicted Gonzales will survive.

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House and Senate investigators spent hours behind closed doors Friday interviewing Michael Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, about inconsistencies in Gonzales' account of his role in the firings of eight federal prosecutors.

Gonzales' former chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, on Thursday told the Senate Judiciary Committee during five hours of testimony that the attorney general, rather than merely signing off on the firings as Gonzales has claimed, was involved several steps along the way. Elston and three officials - a personal lawyer and Justice Department aides - entered the House Judiciary Committee's suite just after 10 a.m.

EDT Friday for what aides predicted would be five hours of interviews. Elston was not expected to be sworn during Friday's interview, but he has agreed to testify voluntarily under oath and in public.


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1. The interviews are supposed to be transcripted.

When we will get to see that?? Or will we have to wait for the hearings?

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3. i have not heard a peep

[Tempest]

2. Bush supports GONEzales in public, but in private...

Asked about Gonzales during a closed-door meeting with House Republicans on Thursday, Mr. Bush did not defend his longtime friend, according to one official who attended the session and demanded
anonymity because it was private.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/03/30/politics/main2627715.shtml