Friday, March 30, 2007

Sampson Contradicts Gonzales on Attorney Firings

by S-Q @ 10:00 AM MDT





Washington Post

By Dan Eggen and Paul Kane
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, March 30, 2007; Page A01

Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales was more deeply involved in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys than he has sometimes acknowledged, and Gonzales and his aides have made a series of inaccurate claims about the issue in recent weeks, the attorney general's former chief of staff testified yesterday.

In dramatic testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee, D. Kyle Sampson also revealed that New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias was not added to the dismissal list until just before the Nov. 7 elections, after presidential adviser Karl Rove complained that Iglesias had not been aggressive enough in pursuing cases of voter fraud. Previously, Rove had not been tied so directly to the removal of the prosecutors.

1 comment:

Suzie-Q (S-Q) said...

If Gone-Zo doesn't resign today..then he needs to be fired/impeached!