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...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...
...senior CIA administrative official. At the time, Foggo had just resigned after questions were raised about his links to former Republican Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham, who has pleaded guilty to bribery and is currently serving a prison term. As previously released documents now indicate, the day after Lam informed DoJ of her plans to execute a search warrant on Foggo, Kyle Sampson, chief of staff to Gonzales, e-mailed William Kelley, the deputy White House counsel, telling him that Lam should be gotten rid of. "Please call me at your convenience to discuss the following," Sampson wrote...
...DoJ spokesman later insisted there was no link between her dismissal and the public corruption investigations she was conducting at the time. The DoJ notes that the day after Sampson's emails, the FBI searched Foggo's house as well as his one-time CIA office. He was later indicted on fraud and money-laundering charges. "We have stated numerous times that no US attorney was removed to retaliate against or inappropriately interfere with any public corruption investigation or prosecution," according to a Justice Dept. statement. The suggestion is that she may not have been doing enough about prosecuting illegal...
...than its spokesmen had previously acknowledged. In 2005, Miers--whom Bush would later fail, calamitously, to promote to the Supreme Court--suggested firing all 93 U.S. Attorneys. Deemed impractical, that idea was replaced by the more modest hit list of eight. "Circulate it to Karl's shop," read one DOJ missive...
...mail, Sampson notes that the appointment of Tim Griffin to a U.S. attorney slot in Little Rock, "was important to Harriet [Miers], Karl [Rove], etc." In response, Democrats said they would investigate the "etc." - to discover which persons at the White House or DOJ he might have been referring...