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Scandal hits the nation's highest law-enforcement body. Will justice be served?
The Justice Department’s decision to replace eight US Attorneys at the end of 2006 could have slipped quietly into the bureaucratic annals. Instead, it exploded into scandal when critics—including several of the fired attorneys themselves—charged that the firings had been politically motivated. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales dismissed the affair as little more than “an overblown personnel matter,” but the Democratic Congress seized on Attorneygate, subpoenaing Justice and administration players and forcing a messy confrontation on the issue of executive privilege. Meanwhile, calls for the AG to resign continue to trickle in from both sides of the aisle—leaving the Bush loyalist's future decidedly uncertain.
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Time | Mar 9, 07
Ratcheting up its investigation of the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the House Judiciary Committee is turning its attention to the White House's role in the affair.
Time | Mar 7, 07
After Republicans lost control of Congress last year, newly empowered Democrats promised to launch a series of tough investigations on everything from the Iraq war to Medicare and high energy prices. But since taking charge on Capitol Hill in January, a series of unexpected new issues have captured their attention, none potentially more damaging to the Bush Administration than the controversy over alleged political influence in the firing of eight Republican U.S. attorneys last Dec. 7, in an episode that some of its victims have already taken to calling the "Pearl Harbor Day Massacre."
Time | Mar 5, 07
In a countdown to high-profile hearings in the House and Senate, Republicans and Democrats are preparing to do battle today over whether the firing of eight Republican U.S. attorneys last year by the Bush Administration was politically motivated. The Justice Department's number two official claimed last year that poor "performance" was behind the firings, a contention disputed by the dismissed officials.
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How the Firings Went Down: A Timeline Through May 2007 US News & World Report
A guide to the scandal, from the first internal e-mails to their reverberating aftermath
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US Attorneys Job Description U.S. Department of Justice
The United States Attorneys serve as the nation's principal litigators under the direction of the Attorney General. There are 93 United States Attorneys stationed throughout the United States, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, Guam, and the Northern Mariana Islands. United States Attorneys are appointed...
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Department of Justice: US Attorneys U.S. Department of Justice
Archive for the 'U.S. Attorney Firings' Category from Firedoglake Firedoglake
From the left: TPMuckracker's archive on the firings and their aftermath Talking Points Memo
FireAlbertoGonzales blog: Dedicated exclusively to the cause Fire Alberto Gonzalez
Law profs blog on Gonzo White Collar Crime Prof Blog
From the right: Power Line's thoughts on the topic (via Google) Google