Senate committee authorizes subpoenas for Justice officials — but holds off on the White House.
Murray Waas lands another blow on Alberto Gonzales.
Gonzales, Waas reports, helped shut down an internal Justice Department investigation of the warrantless wiretapping program that likely would have ended up focusing on him.
“There are a lot of things going on at the Department of Justice.”
Tony Snow fights off questions about the administration’s role in the purge during the press gaggle this morning.
One-time maverick McCain relaunching the Straight Talk Express. Literally.
Oops. Time to make more room on your U.S. attorney purge scandal scorecard.
Today, CREW sent a letter to the House’s chief sleuth, Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA), requesting an investigation into the White House’s use of outside email addresses. If it’s a slippery way of avoiding keeping a record, it’s potentially a violation of the Presidential Records Act. More here.
More Tony Snow.
MR. SNOW: I’m not — how would you define “political decision-making”?
Q Well, decision-making that involves politics.
Q How would you define it, Tony?
MR. SNOW: Well, it’s a loaded term.
Uh-oh. New from ABC …
New unreleased e-mails from top administration officials show the idea of firing all 93 U.S. attorneys was raised by White House adviser Karl Rove in early January 2005, indicating Rove was more involved in the plan than previously acknowledged by the White House.
The e-mails also show Attorney General Alberto Gonzales discussed the idea of firing the attorneys en masse while he was still White House counsel â weeks before he was confirmed as attorney general.
The e-mails directly contradict White House assertions that the notion originated with recently departed White House counsel Harriet Miers and was her idea alone.
Three lies and you’re out, Alberto.