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Associated PressJustice weighed prosecutors' politicsBy LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
35 minutes ago
WASHINGTON - The Justice Department weighed political activism
and membership in a conservative law group in evaluating the
nation's federal prosecutors, documents released in the probe of
fired U.S. attorney show.
The political credentials were listed on a chart of all 124 U.S.
attorneys nominated since 2001, a document that could bolster
Democrats' claims that the traditionally independent Justice
Department has become more partisan during the Bush
administration.
The chart was included in documents released Friday by the
department Friday to congressional panels investigating whether
the firings last year of the U.S. attorneys were politically
motivated — an inquiry that has Attorney General Alberto
Gonzales fighting for his own job.
"This is the chart that the AG requested," Monica Goodling,
Justice's former liaison to the White House, wrote in a Feb. 12
e-mail to two other senior department officials. "I'll show it to
him on the plane tomorrow, if he's interested."
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