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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...
...Harvard students were invited to a roundtable discussion with a senior Clinton campaign staffer to discuss campaign initiatives on- and off-campus...
...problems. "The government has been utterly paralyzed and ineffective in addressing the fundamental issue which is the extent to which organized crime, often involving former military officers and others, have infiltrated Guatemalan society to an extent that it threatens democracy itself there," says Tim Rieser, the top Senate Democratic staffer on foreign aid. 'At least Uribe was able to come up with a program that rallied the country behind him," he says...
...points from the President's office. Cheney himself demanded that the White House spokesman tell "key press" that Libby was as innocent of the charge of leaking classified information as Karl Rove (whose innocence the White House had attested to on record). Cheney wrote, "Not going to protect one staffer [Rove] and sacrifice the guy that was asked to stick his neck in the meat grinder [Libby...
...Washington. Already, in the first 30 days of the new Congress, Democrats in both houses have held 52 committee hearings on the conduct of the war - an average of more than two for every day the House has been in session since January 9. One House Democratic staffer described the move to kick the oversight up several notches as "a strategic decision...