In testimony on Jan. 18, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales assured the Senate Judiciary Committee that the Justice Department had no intention of avoiding Senate input on the hiring of U.S. attorneys.What's Alberto Gonzales going to claim, he didn't see Sampson's 'plan'? Claim ignorance? Well, Alberto needs to state that under oath.
Just a month earlier, D. Kyle Sampson, who was then Gonzales's chief of staff, laid out a plan to do just that. In an e-mail, he detailed a strategy for evading Arkansas Democrats in installing Tim Griffin, a former GOP operative and protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove, as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock.
"We should gum this to death," Sampson wrote to a White House aide on Dec. 19. "[A]sk the senators to give Tim a chance . . . then we can tell them we'll look for other candidates, ask them for recommendations, evaluate the recommendations, interview their candidates, and otherwise run out the clock. All of this should be done in 'good faith,' of course."
Congress already has Sampson, William E. Moschella and Paul J. McNulty nailed for lying to Congress under oath, so Alberto needs to come back for some sworn testimony.
Great article by Dan Eggen-lays out all the lies to Congress that are now being exposed by the liars' own documents.
It's always about the cover-up.
