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...senior Justice Department official. Cummins' e-mail, which was released publicly, quoted the Justice official as warning that if fired U.S. attorneys continued to talk to the media or volunteered to testify before Congress, the department "would feel forced to somehow pull their gloves off" and fight back. The DOJ denied the allegation...
...Adding to the furor, a report by McClatchy Newspapers - quickly denied by the Justice Department - alleged that a senior DOJ official informed one of the fired U.S. attorneys that if any of them continued to criticize the Administration, previously undisclosed details about the reasons for the firings could made public. McClatchy attributed the account to two of the ousted prosecutors, but did not name them, and also quoted the DOJ official as saying, "I had no conversation in which I discussed with any U.S. attorney what they should or should not say to the media regarding their removal...
...telephone calls to dismiss six of the eight prosecutors in early December, said he was leaving his job. The Department of Justice issued a statement that described his sudden departure as long planned, having nothing to do with the controversial terminations he had to carry out. Battle, the DOJ said, had played no role in the White House-approved decision to get rid of the federal prosecutors, but had merely made the calls...
...find out what happened in the firings, four of the dismissed U.S. attorneys will appear before the Senate, and six before the House, along with a senior DOJ official who will most likely defend his department's actions. Carol Lam, a prosecutor from California, will read a joint statement on behalf of her fellow witnesses, thanking President Bush and defending the integrity and competence of the dismissed officials. Then the witnesses will answer questions...
...Ambassador in Bolivia, Philip Goldberg, stated Monday that the extradition of Sanchez de Lozada is "theoretically possible" but that because the issue was "judicial, not political," he deferred comment to the U.S. Department of Justice. The DOJ did not return TIME's repeated calls; nor did Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada himself. The Bolivia-U.S. extradition treaty allows for an exemption for people accused of "political offenses," and lawyers in Bolivia expect the former president's lawyers to claim such a status for their client. Indeed, a longtime friend of Sanchez de Lozada, Miami-based consultant Beatrice Rangel, alleges that...