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- Could the U.S. Attorneys firing scandal be bigger than Americans know?
  Posted by VincebusEruptum from Blogs.abcnews
  For months, the Bush administration has declined to directly answer a key question posed by Congress: were more top federal prosecutors targeted for dismissal beyond the nine that have been publicly identified? In a new letter to senators who have been pushing for the answer...
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- Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove
  Posted by Jeff from news.nationaljournal
  Several of the e-mails that the Bush administration is withholding from Congress, as well as papers from the White House counsel's office describing other withheld documents, were made available to National Journal by a senior executive branch official, who said that the administration has inappropriately kept many of them from Congress.
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- Top Justice Department aide to testify in probe of US attorney firings
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  The US Department of Justice agreed to grant limited immunity from prosecution for Monica Goodling, a former top department official, a key step in compelling her to testify publicly about the controversial firings of eight US attorneys last year.
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- Will White House sacrifice Gonzales to save Rove?
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  As the political controversy over Attorney General Alberto Gonzales continues to escalate in advance of his appearance before the Senate Judiciary Committee, there are mounting signs that the Bush administration is preparing to sacrifice Gonzales in order to protect aides even closer to President Bush, including chief White House political operative Karl Rove.
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- More calls for attorney general to resign over firings of US attorneys
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  Appearing on the “Fox News Sunday” program, former speaker of the House of Representatives Newt Gingrich joined other prominent Republicans and a larger number of Democratic lawmakers in urging Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales to resign over his role in the firings of eight US attorneys.
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- The anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  It is becoming increasingly clear that the firing of eight US attorneys was part of an illegal conspiracy whose principle aim was to maintain Republican power by suppressing the votes of working class and minority voters and using trumped-up voter-fraud prosecutions to manipulate elections and reverse close ones that went to the Democrats.
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- The US attorneys
  Posted by Sandyenglish
  The supposed constitutional “showdown” between the Democratic-led Congress and George Bush’s White House over the firing of eight federal prosecutors has served primarily to shift the focus of media attention and official public debate away from the war in Iraq.
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Jeff comments on:
Will White House sacrifice Gonzales to save Rove?

I think if Goodling gets immunity, Gonzales is likely to resign.

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Us attorneys

Could the U.S. Attorneys firing scandal be bigger than Americans know?

Administration Withheld E-Mails About Rove

Top Justice Department aide to testify in probe of US attorney firings

Will White House sacrifice Gonzales to save Rove?

More calls for attorney general to resign over firings of US attorneys

The anti-democratic agenda behind the US attorney firings

The US attorneys

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Will White House sacrifice Gonzales to save Rove?

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