Senators Press for More Files on Removing Prosecutors

[madfloridian]

Source: New York Times

April 9 — Four senators said Monday that they suspected that the Justice Department had failed to turn over all relevant documents related to the dismissals of eight United States attorneys.

The department has released more than 3,000 pages of e-mail messages and other files. But, the senators wrote in a letter to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales, “We are concerned that additional documents relevant to the committee’s investigations are missing or have been withheld.”

The letter expressed skepticism about whether lawmakers had all the material they needed to evaluate the motives for the removals and raised questions on the scope and methods used to assemble the material. A spokesman for the department, Brian Roehrkasse, said officials would not comment until they had reviewed the letter.

Justice Department officials have previously said they turned over all relevant materials, but held back sensitive personnel information about most prosecutors other than those who were removed last year. The signers of the letter were one Republican, Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania, and three Democrats, Patrick J. Leahy of Vermont, the Judiciary Committee chairman; Dianne Feinstein of California; and Charles E. Schumer of New York.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/10/washington/10attorneys.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

[Erika]

1. The God Squad to be questioned

Can hardly wait.

[ninkasi]

2. There is no skulduggery I would put past this administration

Even if they screw up everything else, they are adept in lying. Everything they say must be scrutinized many times, in order to get at the truth.