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US Attorneys: Alberto Gonzales Crams For Hearings
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Michael Isikoff
Newsweek: 'Isolated' Attorney General Crams for
Hearings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907C.shtml
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually wiped his public schedule clean to bone up for his long-awaited April 17 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee - a session widely seen as a crucial test as to whether he will survive the US attorney mess. But even his own closest advisers are nervous about whether he is up to the task.
The New York Times:
Another Layer of Scandal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907O.shtml
"As Congress investigates the politicization of the United States attorney offices by the Bush administration, it should review the extraordinary events the other day in a federal courtroom in Wisconsin. The case involved Georgia Thompson, a state employee sent to prison on the flimsiest of corruption charges just as her boss, a Democrat, was fighting off a Republican challenger," writes the New York Times.
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