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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' future hangs in the balance as his recently-resigned Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson sits down in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee at 10 a.m. Thursday morning in the Hart Office Building. Sampson is the man at the center of the U.S. attorney scandal, the one person who, more than any other, can answer why the eight prosecutors were fired, whether there was any improper political influence from the White House over the process, and just how involved Gonzales was in the whole affair. Gonzales has claimed only passing knowledge of the firings; a slip...
...While the Northeast was where the bulk of the Crimson competed over the weekend, the most important practice still came from preparing for Nationals at Navy. “We wanted to get some time sailing and getting used to the waters down here,” junior captain Kyle Kovacs said of sailing in Annapolis. “So in that regard, we got some good experience.” OWEN TROPHY The U.S. Naval Academy hosted the Owen Trophy in Annapolis, Md., on Saturday and Sunday, also the site of the national championships in May. Though...
...Kyle L.K. McAuley ’09, a Crimson arts editor, is an English concentrator in Leverett House...
...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 by Tim Griffin, a former assistant...
...weekend talk show, Senator Dianne Feinstein, a Democrat on the Judiciary committee, revealed that on May 10, Lam, the U.S. attorney in San Diego, had informed the Justice Department about her plans to issue a pair of search warrants in a criminal investigation of defense contractor Brent Wilkes and Kyle "Dusty" Foggo, a former 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...