Congress Presses for Justice Docs

One last chance, or the subpoenas come out.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee along with ranking member Arlen Specter (R-PA) wrote Attorney General Alberto Gonzales yesterday to ask again for certain withheld documents relevant to the U.S. attorney firings. If Gonzales doesn’t turn them over by tomorrow, the committee will issue subpoenas for them on Thursday, they write. You can read the letter here.

The committee wants all the relevant documents, all the lists, all the rankings of U.S. attorneys, every scrap of paper.

In particular, the committee members asked for Gonzales’ cheat sheets on the firings — The Washington Post reported last week that he was reviewing “thousands of pages of documents related to his upcoming testimony” to get ready.

They also targeted documents reported on by The American Spectator last week. The mag reported that certain files in the Deputy Attorney General’s office had not been turned over to Congress: “the files include overviews and evaluations of at least a dozen current and now-former U.S. Attorneys, which were prepared by DAG and EOUSA staff to brief Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty and his chief of staff Michael Elston.”