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MICHAEL BATTLE News:
20070615
-
 Mike
Elston
-  Paul
McNulty
-  Alberto
Gonzales -  Monica
M Goodling -  Kyle
Sampson
-  Mike
Battle
-  US
Attorneys -  Law
- "Official
close to attorney firings quits." ... "A senior Justice
Department official who helped carry out the dismissals of federal prosecutors
said Friday he is resigning. Mike Elston, chief of staff to Deputy Attorney
General Paul McNulty, is the fifth Justice official to leave after being
linked to the dismissals of the prosecutors." ... "Elston was accused of
threatening at least four of the eight fired U.S. attorneys to keep quiet
about their ousters. In a statement Friday, the Justice Department said
Elston was leaving voluntarily to take a job with an unnamed Washington[DC]-area
law firm." ... "The firings have led to congressional investigations, an
internal Justice Department inquiry and calls on Capitol Hill for the resignation
of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales." ... "Other aides who have resigned
in the wake of the firings include former Gonzales chief of staff Kyle
Sampson and White House liaison Monica M. Goodling. A fifth official, Mike
Battle, who ran the Justice office that oversees the U.S. attorneys, left
in March." -By Lara Jakes Jordan
-AP via -ADN.com
20070604
-
Michael
Battle
-
 Randy
"Duke" Cunningham
- Michael
Elston
- San
Diego -  California
- US
Attorney -  Government
-  Money
- Law
-  Politics
- "Letter
to Washington: The show goes on." ... "A few days
after learning last December that she was to submit her resignation effective
Jan. 31, [San Diego California US Attorney Carol] Lam asked Michael Battle,
then the head of the U.S. attorney executive office, for extra time to
ensure “an orderly transition – especially regarding pending investigations
and several significant cases that were set to begin trial in the next
few months,” Lam wrote in her answers [respongind to House Judiciary Committee
questions]." ... "At the time, Lam was investigating corruption cases stemming
from her successful prosecution of former [California Republican Representative]
Rep. Randy “Duke” Cunningham, the Rancho Santa Fe Republican who pleaded
guilty to conspiracy and tax evasion charges after admitting to taking
more than $2.4 million in bribes. Cunningham was sentenced to more than
eight
years in federal prison. Besides Lam, four other prosecutors were presiding
over corruption investigations when they were dismissed." ... "About a
month passed when Lam got a call from Michael Elston, Gonzales' former
chief of staff, telling her that her request for extra time was “not being
received positively” and that she “should stop thinking in terms of the
cases in the office.”" ... "“He insisted that I had to depart in a matter
of weeks, not months, and that these instructions were 'coming from the
very highest level of the government,' ” Lam wrote." ... "Lam submitted
her resignation Jan. 16, effective Feb. 15." -By Dana
Wilkie -Copley
via -Union-Tribune
20070323
-
 Rove
- Gonzales
-  Miers
- US
Attorneys
- Law
-  Enforcement
- Politics
-  Arkansas
- E-Mails
- "E-Mails
Show Machinations to Replace Prosecutor: Administration
Worked for Months to Make Rove Aide U.S. Attorney in Arkansas." ... "Two
months before Bud Cummins was fired as U.S. attorney in Little Rock [Arkansas],
a protege of presidential adviser Karl Rove was maneuvering with the Justice
Department to take his place." ... "Last April, Tim Griffin, a Rove aide
and longtime GOP operative, sent the attorney general's chief of staff
a flattering letter about himself written by Cummins, the prosecutor he
was trying to replace, internal e-mails released this week show. Rove and
Harriet Miers, then the White House counsel, were keenly interested in
putting him in the position, e-mails reveal." ... "New documents also show
that Justice and White House officials were preparing for President Bush's
approval of the appointment as early as last summer, five months before
Griffin took the job." ... "The e-mails show how D. Kyle Sampson, then
the attorney general's chief of staff, and other Justice officials prepared
to use a change in federal law to bypass input from Arkansas' two Democratic
senators, who had expressed doubts about placing a former Republican National
Committee operative in charge of a U.S. attorney's office. The evidence
runs contrary to assurances from Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that
no such move had been planned." ... "By June 13, about a week before Cummins
would be told he was losing his job, Sampson wrote to Monica Goodling,
senior counsel to Gonzales, to tell her that a colleague had the necessary
pre-nomination paperwork for Griffin. He said that he would speak the following
morning with Michael A. Battle, chief of the office that oversees U.S.
attorneys, and make sure that Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty's
office "knows that we are now executing this plan."" ... "Sampson's note
suggests the plan was not new: "I did tell them this was likely coming
several months ago."" (1, 2,
3)
-By Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein with contributions
by Michael Abramowitz -WashingtonPost
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