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...most intriguing revelation in the 2,400 pages is troubling but hardly criminal. In a spreadsheet analysis of the professional qualifications of all U.S. attorneys drawn up by DOJ staffers, there are sections for both prosecutorial and political experience. The latter category is broken down into columns showing time spent at the Justice Department, on the Hill, in political campaigns and government staff. The last column indicates whether or not the U.S. attorney is a member of the conservative legal organization the Federalist Society...
...Monica Goodling is the jugular that connects DOJ and the White House on this issue," says Bruce Fein, a well-known conservative lawyer and former senior official in the Reagan Justice Dept. "The obvious possibility that she might be given a grant of immunity will put the fear of God into other witnesses and encourage their truth telling...
...partial analysis of the 3,000 pages of e-mails and other documents shows that senior DoJ officials were deeply worried about their handling of the crisis. At one point, for example, staffers confronted the possibility that former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins might testify before Congress. "I don't think he should," Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, declared in a Feb. 1, 2007 e-mail to a fellow staffer. "How would he answer: Did you resign voluntarily? Who told you? What did they say?" Cummins was dumped as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., and replaced...
...Sampson's exchange regarding Cummins could be important because of another e-mail, this one from DoJ spokesman Brian Roehrkasse. In a Feb. 7 message, Roehrkasse who was on a trip with Gonzales in South America at the time, wrote, "The Attorney General is extremely upset with the stories on the US Attys this morning" - stories that dealt with the Congressional testimony by Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, who was trying to explain why Cummins and others were dismissed. According to Roehrkasse's e-mail, "[Gonzales] also thought some of the DAG's statements were inaccurate." Roehrkasse has since said...
...another embarrassment revealed in the e-mails, Patrick Fitzgerald, the U.S. attorney from Chicago then investigating Cheney aide Scooter Libby in the CIA leak case, had his name turn up on a Justice Department chart including him among prosecutors who had "not distinguished themselves." DoJ's rating of Fitzgerald, who later obtained a jury conviction of Libby on four felony counts, was sent to the White House in March 2005 ranking him behind "strong U.S. attorneys... who exhibited loyalty" to the administration, but ahead of "weak U.S. attorneys who... chafed against administration initiatives...