Gonzales phones Fielding and Thompson before Clarke testified

[donsu]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A40578-2004Mar31.html

President Bush's top lawyer placed a telephone call to at least one of the Republican members of the Sept. 11 commission when the panel was gathered in Washington on March 24 to hear the testimony of former White House counterterrorism chief Richard A. Clarke, according to people with direct knowledge of the call.

White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales called commissioner Fred F. Fielding, one of five GOP members of the body, and, according to one observer, also called Republican commission member James R. Thompson. Rep. Henry A. Waxman, the ranking Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee, wrote to Gonzales yesterday asking him to confirm and describe the conversations.

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During the commission's 21/2 hours of questioning Clarke, Fielding and Thompson presented evidence questioning the former official's credibility.
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bet Gonzales/bushgang did more then just make phone calls

[TacticalPeek]

1. Gosh, I hope he didn't do anything to impede an independent investigation.

Or we will soon have too many grand juries and criminal investigations to keep up with.

:evilgrin:

[izzie]

2. If the WH went over this book why is there so much trouble?

Maybe they gave it to Bush to read?