Justice Department hands over more documents in congressional probe about fired U.S. attorneys

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Source: CNN

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- After more demands for documents from Congress, the Justice Department has handed over about 40 additional pages related to the firings of a group of U.S. attorneys last year. Originally the department had refused to release those documents, saying they contained privileged information, but after discussions with congressional officials it relented.

One chain of e-mails from Sunday, March 4, of this year concerns a response to press inquiries about calls made to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.Mex., about then-U.S. Attorney David Iglesias.

The firing of Iglesias, who was added late to the list of U.S. attorneys fired last December, has been one of the most controversial. Iglesias contends he was pressured by Domenici and Rep. Heather Wilson, R-N.Mex., about whether his office was going to bring a public corruption case against a Democratic state lawmaker before the November midterm elections, and administration officials have not been able to produce a consensus reason on why he was terminated.

The e-mails contained a draft Justice Department statement saying, "At no time in the calls did the senator mention any specific public corruption case," but Principal Deputy Associate Attorney General William Moschella recommended striking "public corruption" from that statement, saying, "I don't think he mentioned public corruption or any other type of case." However, that subject apparently was raised by Domenici.

Read more: http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/08/01/wednesday/index.html

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[napi21]

1. What the hell is this? Death by a thousand drips? Must be their method

of dragging out everything until Jan. 09! Then everyone walks away free!!!!!

[Peace Patriot]

2. "...after discussions with congressional officials (the DoJ) relented." Right.

After a lot of paper shredding, vetting for "smoking guns," redacting, removal of Karl Rove's name from everything, wiping of hard drives, and maybe wholesale invention of time-stamps and phony emails, the DoJ "relented" and dumped a bunch of meaningless paper on Congress.

And Rove's 50,000 emails on RNC servers--the ones that show how he stole the 2004 election--remain top secret. National Security, don't ya know?