New US Attorney Purge revelations just out at TPMmuckraker.com.

The House Judiciary Committee has just released its correspondence with the fired US Attorneys. And we’ve got the documents and new revelations they contain. First up, Deputy AG McNulty told the Senat Judiciary Committee that Nevada USA Daniel Bogden had been let go for “performance related” reasons. But McNulty apparently told Bogden just the opposite in a phone call in December.

More revelations coming shortly.

Here’s a first look at a new ad being aired by John Edwards demanding that Congress continue standing up to the White House on Iraq. It’s a good one.

Fired U.S. Attorney says the Justice Department offered him a “quid pro quo”: stay silent about your firing and we will too.

DOJ official to fired US Attorney Bud Cummins: circumventing the senate was the “White House plan.”

Oh surprise, surprise. After Carol Lam was fired last December, she had a conversation with DOJ official Michael Elston. When Lam asked to be able to stay on briefly to oversee certain key cases. Elston told her she had to be gone in “weeks, not months” and that the order for her firing was “coming from the very highest levels of the government.”

‘Very highest levels of the government’. I don’t think Monica Goodling or Kyle Sampson count in that category, do they?

Also of interest, given the DOJ’s cover story for Lam’s firing, Lam called Deputy AG McNulty and asked why she was being fired. According to Lam: “He responded that he wanted some time to think about how to answer that question because he didn’t want to give me an answer ‘that would lead’ me down the wrong route. He added that he knew I had personally taken on a long trial and he had great respect for me. Mr. McNulty never responded to my question.”

I guess no one had clued McNulty in on the ‘immigration enforcement’ talking points.

Don’t miss it: Rudy Giuliani’s two minute rant about … ferrets. Yes, Ferrets. Quoted in full.

Senate subpoenas Rove emails on US Attorney Purge.

Only Republicans need apply.

The Justice Department inspector general is investigating whether Monica Goodling was considering political affiliation when hiring entry-level assistant U.S. attorneys across the country.

So what’s the next step for Congressional Dems on Iraq?

Here are some thoughts from a savvy House Democratic aide we know on the pros and cons of the possible Dem strategies.

There was a flurry of new developments in the US Attorney Purge on Wednesday. In addition to the new documents released by the House Judiciary Committee, we have the revelation that Monica Goodling is now being investigated for screening new prosecutors for proper party affiliation.

As part of her job, Goodling signed off on applications for entry-level prosecutor positions in offices run by interim (read: Patriot Act) US Attorney’s Offices. And she is now being investigated by the DOJ itself for allegedly screening applicants for proper party affiliation.

But this raises a weird possibility: the fact that the DOJ is investigating Goodling could put a roadblock in the way of the investigating committees’ efforts to give her immunity and force her to testify on Capitol Hill. So Goodling’s new alleged wrongdoing could have the perverse effect of preventing her from being forced to go up to Capitol Hill and reveal what she knows about what happened in the Purge.

Go figure.