Word: doj
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...that the number-two official at the Justice Department has resigned, the question many in Washington are asking is: Will soon-to-be-former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty be DOJ's fall guy - or its worst nightmare...
...darkest theories are that their removal was designed to affect the prosecution of specific cases - particularly ones that might have affected the outcomes of close electoral contests. McNulty would be in a position to testify as to how much political pressure, if any, the White House was putting on DOJ...
...real question that is being exposed as the controversy over last year's purge of U.S. attorneys enters its fifth month: Did Gonzales, the consummate George Bush loyalist, politicize the workings of one of the most sensitive and traditionally independent agencies in government, the Department of Justice (DOJ)? While it's true the President has always picked an ally to run the department and populated its upper echelons with political appointees, the bureaucracy has fiercely guarded a unique and proud tradition of insulating from partisanship those who are charged with making sure that the laws of this country are fairly...
...Gonzales would not be the first Justice official to diminish the White House role in the attorney firings. Sampson himself did so, inadvertently or otherwise, when he prepped top DOJ officials for Congressional testimony earlier this year. He and Monica Goodling, the former counselor to Gonzales whom Congress has granted immunity to testify, had multiple e-mail conversations with White House officials throughout the fall of 2006 about the plan to remove the U.S. attorneys, including with Scott Jennings in Karl Rove's office and Harriet Miers and her assistants in the White House counsel's office, documents released...
...Extraditions are unlikely, although the Justice Department acknowledges that the investigation into Chiquita's payments to the AUC is ongoing - its focus, a DOJ official indicates, may now be on individual company executives on a list of 10 "relevant persons" identified only by letters of the alphabet in the documents filed by the Department in the U.S. District Court in Washington...