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20070830

Alberto Gonzales - Monica Goodling - Kyle Sampson - Political - Jobs - Government - US Attorneys - Death Penalty - Immigration - "Justice Department Probe Looking at Hiring Since 2004 (Update1)." ... "Justice Department investigators have expanded their probe into whether political considerations were improperly used in hiring, inquiring about personnel decisions as long as a year before Alberto Gonzales became attorney general [under Republican President Bush]." ... "Investigators have sent a letter to people who applied for jobs with the department, asking whether they were interviewed by any of four aides in the attorney general's office. The investigators want to know whether the applicants were questioned about such matters as who they voted for, their position on the death penalty and their favorite Supreme Court justice." ... "The investigators' questionnaire asked whether the applicants were interviewed by [Monica] Goodling or three other aides: Jan Williams, Goodling's predecessor; Kyle Sampson, Gonzales's former chief of staff; and Angela Williamson, who is now the Justice Department's deputy White House liaison." ... "She [Goodling] said she sometimes considered job candidates' political views when interviewing them for positions as immigration judges or assistant U.S. attorneys. Both jobs are covered by civil service laws prohibiting such assessments." -By Robert Schmidt -Bloomberg

20070726

Alberto Gonzales - Karl Rove - Monica Goodling - US Attorneys - Terrorism - Phone - E-Mail - Surveillance - Intelligence - Law - Politics - New York - "Rove Summoned as Democrats Escalate Fight With Bush (Update2)." ... "Senate Democrats sought a special prosecutor to investigate whether Attorney General Alberto Gonzales lied to lawmakers and they subpoenaed [Republican] President George W. Bush's top political aide, Karl Rove, to testify about the firing of U.S. attorneys." ... "Charges by four Democratic senators that Gonzales repeatedly lied under oath, plus the latest subpoena, raised the stakes in the congressional fight with Bush over his refusal to allow aides to testify about the firing of nine prosecutors last year." ... "``The attorney general took an oath to tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,'' New York [Democratic Senator] Democrat Charles Schumer told reporters today. ``Instead, he tells the half-truth, the partial truth and everything but the truth. And he does it not once, and not twice, but over and over and over again.''" ... "The lawmakers said Gonzales's testimony that he never talked to other colleagues about the prosecutor firings after the controversy erupted was contradicted by former aide Monica Goodling. She told Congress in May that she felt ``uncomfortable'' when Gonzales raised the subject." ... "The Democrats also said they found ``deeply troubling'' Gonzales's assertions in 2006 Senate testimony that ``there has not been any serious disagreement'' in the administration over the interception of suspected terrorists' international phone calls and e-mails without court warrants." ... "The attorney general's statement was contradicted in congressional testimony earlier this year by former Deputy Attorney General James B. Comey, who said there had been dissent at the highest levels of the Justice Department in March 2004." -By James Rowley -Bloomberg

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

20070614

Alberto R Gonzales - Monica M Goodling - US Attorneys - Politics - "DOJ Investigates if Gonzales Tried to Influence Aide's Testimony." ... "The Justice Department is investigating whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales sought to influence the testimony of a departing senior aide during a March meeting in Gonzales's office, according to correspondence released today." ... "In a letter to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the two officials who are leading an internal Justice Department investigation of the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys last year said their inquiry includes the Gonzales meeting, which was revealed during testimony last month from former Gonzales aide Monica M. Goodling." -By Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost

20070604

Bradley Schlozman - Goodling - Gonzales - Government - US Attorney - Civil Rights - Politics - Missouri - "DOJ Probes Turn to Civil Rights Division: Judiciary Committee to question ex-official [Bradley] Schlozman while internal investigation looks at hiring practices." ... "Schlozman will testify Tuesday about his activities not only in the Civil Rights Division but also in his brief stint as interim U.S. Attorney in the Western District of Missouri, where he replaced Todd Graves -- one of nine U.S. Attorneys to have been fired by the Justice Department last year." ... "In particular, Democrats plan to press Schlozman about his role in the hiring of career attorneys into the voting and appellate sections of the Civil Rights Division, and whether Schlozman inappropriately considered the political loyalties of candidates -- a potential violation of the Hatch Act and civil service laws governing federal hiring." ... "The allegations are similar to the admission last month by Monica Goodling, the former senior adviser to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, that she had inappropriately taken politics into account in making hiring decisions for career federal prosecutors and immigration judges." ... "Congress, of course, isn't the only body reviewing Schlozman's tenure at the Civil Rights Division. Last week the Justice Department's Office of Professional Responsibility and Office of the Inspector General, which are conducting a joint investigation into the U.S. Attorney firings, announced that they had broadened their probe to include allegations of politicization in hiring at the Civil Rights Division." -By Jason McLure -LegalTimes.com via -Law.com

20070531

Monica Goodling - Tim Griffin - Alberto Gonzales - Paul McNulty - Karl Rove - Harriet Miers - Noteworthy - US Attorneys - Military - Students - Race - Politics - Law - 2004 Election - Arkansas - Florida - "Raging Caging: What the heck is vote caging, and why should we care?" ... "Last week, in her testimony before the House judiciary committee, [Republican] Monica Goodling referred several times to "vote caging" possibly done by Arkansas' soon to be ex-interim, never-confirmed [Republican] U.S. Attorney Tim Griffin. Yet Goodling was questioned about this almost not at all, nor did the media do much more than report the words of the former liaison between the [Republican President Bush's] White House and [Republican] Alberto Gonzales (why a "liaison" is required between two institutions with no boundaries between them is incomprehensible, but perhaps another story). Meanwhile, liberal talk radio, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., and the blogosphere went nuts. So, which is it: Is vote caging the most underreported part of this U.S. attorneys scandal or the most over-hyped?" ... "One of the reasons the mainstream news reports (including mine [Dahlia Lithwick]) barely touched the vote-caging story was that nobody had any idea what Goodling was talking about. "Vote caging, what's that?" we e-mailed each other at Slate. The confusion seemed to extend to Goodling herself. The subject came up in her testimony about former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty. In saying he had not been forthright with the House judiciary committee in his testimony on the firing of the U.S. attorneys, she cited three areas, one of which was McNulty's failure "to disclose that he had some knowledge of allegations that Tim Griffin had been involved in 'vote caging' in the president's 2004 [election] campaign," when he spoke to Congress." ... "Vote caging is an illegal trick to suppress minority voters (who tend to vote Democrat) by getting them knocked off the voter rolls if they fail to answer registered mail sent to homes they aren't living at (because they are, say, at college or at war). The Republican National Committee reportedly stopped the practice following a consent decree in a 1986 case. Google the term and you'll quickly arrive at the Wizard of Oz of caging, Greg Palast, investigative reporter and author of the wickedly funny Armed Madhouse: From Baghdad to New Orleans—Sordid Secrets and Strange Tales of a White House Gone Wild. Palast started reporting allegations of Republican vote caging for the BBC's Newsnight in 2004. He's been almost alone on the story since then. Palast contends, both in Armed Madhouse and widely through the liberal blogosphere, that vote caging, an illegal voter-suppression scheme, happened in Florida in 2004 this way:"

"The Bush-Cheney operatives sent hundreds of thousands of letters marked "Do not forward" to voters' homes. Letters returned ("caged") were used as evidence to block these voters' right to cast a ballot on grounds they were registered at phony addresses. Who were the evil fakers? Homeless men, students on vacation and—you got to love this—American soldiers. Oh yeah: most of them are Black voters." ... "Why weren't these African-American voters home when the Republican letters arrived? The homeless men were on park benches, the students were on vacation—and the soldiers were overseas."

"From the point of view of the ongoing DoJ scandal, perhaps what's most urgent about the vote-caging claims is that they go a long, long way toward explaining why [Republican] Karl Rove and [Republican] Harriet Miers were so determined to get Griffin seated in the Arkansas U.S. Attorney's office, and to do so without a confirmation hearing." (1, 2) -By Dahlia Lithwick

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Alberto Gonzales - Monica Goodling - Government - Employees - Political - Enforcement - Immigration - Civil Rights - US Attorneys - "Justice Dept. probes its hirings: Investigating for bias toward conservatives." ... "The Justice Department has launched an internal investigation into whether [Republican President George] Bush administration officials violated civil service rules by favoring conservative Republicans when hiring lawyers in the Civil Rights Division, the department disclosed yesterday in a letter to Congress." ... "The probe will also examine whether the administration illegally used a political litmus test when vetting candidates for non-partisan positions elsewhere in the Justice Department, according to the heads of the department's offices of inspector general and professional responsibility." ... "The disclosure that the two watchdogs are focusing on the Civil Rights Division marks an expansion to a new arena of the Justice Department of an ongoing investigation into whether politics played a role in the firing of nine US attorneys in 2006. The probe has widened to encompass allegations that the administration has used its control of the Justice Department to gain a partisan edge." ... "Under federal law, officials may not take political affiliation into account when hiring career professionals, permanent, non-partisan employees who stay on when an administration changes. But last week, a former aide to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, Monica Goodling, told Congress that she had "crossed the line" by attempting to block liberal applicants from being hired as career assistant prosecutors and immigration judges." ... "In April, a group of Justice officials sent an anonymous letter to Congress alleging that political appointees were systematically screening out applicants who had worked for liberal groups or Democrats, thereby "politicizing the non-political ranks of Justice Department employees, offices which are consistently and methodically being eroded by partisan politics."" ... "Current and former career attorneys say that the changes had a particularly dramatic impact on the Civil Rights Division, which is charged with enforcing voting-rights and anti discrimination laws on behalf of minorities. Critics alleged that the administration was seeking to blunt the division's aggressiveness by hiring conservative activists to decide how and when to enforce the laws." -By Charlie Savage -Boston/Globe

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20070526

Monica M Goodling - Alberto R Gonzales - D Kyle Sampson - Political - US Immigration - US Attorneys - "Officials Say Justice Dept. Based Hires on Politics Before Goodling Tenure." ... "The Justice Department considered political affiliation in screening applicants for immigration court judgeships for several years until hiring was frozen in December after objections from department lawyers, current and former officials said yesterday." ... "The disclosures mean that the Justice Department may have violated civil service laws, which prohibit political considerations in hiring, for as long as two years before the tenure of Monica M. Goodling, the former aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales who testified about the practice this week." ... "Goodling told the House Judiciary Committee on Wednesday that she "crossed the line" in considering political affiliation for several categories of career applicants at Justice, including immigration judges." ... "The attorney for D. Kyle Sampson, Gonzales's former chief of staff, said yesterday that Sampson and other officials also forwarded names of politically connected applicants for the immigration courts, based on legal advice that Sampson was given and on common historical practice in the department." ... "The Justice Department said yesterday that its administrative immigration courts are covered by civil service laws that prohibit political considerations in hiring." ... "The department's hiring practices have come under scrutiny in the furor over the firings last year of nine U.S. attorneys." ... "Goodling testified that Sampson told her that the department's Office of Legal Counsel had concluded that immigration judges were not covered by civil service rules. The Justice Department said after her testimony that it had "located no record" of an OLC opinion that reached that conclusion." -By Dan Eggen -WashingtonPost

20070525

Gonzales - Goodling - US Immigration - Political - Government - Enforcement - "Hiring of immigration judges may have violated laws: Officials say Justice Department considered applicants' political ties." ... "Over the last two years, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has appointed more than two dozen individuals as federal immigration judges." ... "One thing missing on many of their resumes: a background in immigration law." ... "These lawyers are joining the ranks of a growing number of the more than 200 immigration judges around the United States who have little or no experience in the law they were appointed to enforce." ... "The admission by former Justice Department official Monica Goodling this week that federal immigration judges were screened for their political credentials and loyalty to the Republican Party in possible violation of civil-service laws is drawing new attention to the usually low-profile immigration bench." ... "Considering political affiliation in filling civil service positions is a violation of the Hatch Act, which is designed to keep party politics separate from the day-to-day operations of the federal government." -By Richard B. Schmitt -LAtimes via -Chron
Gonzales - Goodling - Sampson - US Immigration - Politics - "Inquiry widens into Justice Department hiring: The move follows testimony by a former Gonzales aide that she had considered politics in screening applicants." ... "The Justice Department has broadened an internal investigation into whether aides to Atty. Gen. [Republican Attorney General] Alberto R. Gonzales improperly took into account political considerations in hiring employees, officials familiar with the probe said Thursday." ... "The expanded inquiry, conducted by the department's inspector general and its Office of Professional Responsibility, comes after testimony Wednesday by former Gonzales aide Monica M. Goodling." ... "She told a House committee that she had considered party affiliation in screening applicants to become immigration judges." ... "She cited a conversation she had with another Gonzales aide, D. Kyle Sampson, who said the department's Office of Legal Counsel had declared the practice to be lawful." ... "Justice Department officials said no such opinion existed." ... "They also denied Goodling's assertion that the hiring of immigration judges had been frozen after the department's civil division raised concerns about using a political litmus test." -By Richard B. Schmitt -LAtimes

20070524

Monica Goodling - Alberto Gonzales - US Attorneys - Law - Politics - "Ex-aide contradicts Gonzales, says he discussed recollections." ... "A former Justice Department official told House investigators Wednesday that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales tried to review his version of the prosecutor firings with her at a time when lawmakers were homing in on conflicting accounts. Gonzales has testified he hasn't spoken with witnesses." ... ""It made me a little uncomfortable," Monica Goodling, Gonzales' former White House liaison, said of her conversation with the attorney general just before she took a leave of absence in March. "I just did not know if it was appropriate for us to both be discussing our recollections of what had happened."" ... "Gonzales told the Senate Judiciary Committee last month that he didn't know the answers to some questions about the firings because he was steering clear of aides -- such as Goodling -- who were likely to be questioned." ... ""I haven't talked to witnesses because of the fact that I haven't wanted to interfere with this investigation and department investigations," Gonzales told the panel." ... "Goodling said Wednesday that Gonzales reviewed the story of the firings with her at an impromptu meeting she requested in his office before she took a leave of absence." -By Laurie Kellman -AP via -SeattleTimes

20070523

Monica M Goodling - Alberto R Gonzales - Kyle Sampson - Paul J McNulty - Political - US Attorneys - Jobs - Civil Rights - Environment - "Officials Describe Interference by Former Gonzales Aide." ... "When Jeffrey A. Taylor, interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, wanted to hire a new career prosecutor last fall, he had to run the idea past Monica M. Goodling, then a 33-year-old aide to Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales." ... "The candidate was Seth Adam Meinero, a Howard University law school graduate who had worked on civil rights cases at the Environmental Protection Agency and had served as a special assistant prosecutor in Taylor's office." ... "Goodling stalled the hiring, saying that Meinero was too "liberal" for the nonpolitical position, said according to two sources familiar with the dispute." ... "The tussle over Meinero, who was eventually hired at Taylor's insistence, led to a Justice Department investigation of whether Goodling improperly weighed political affiliation when reviewing applicants for rank-and-file prosecutor jobs, the sources said." ... "Goodling's public troubles began in mid-March, when [Kyle] Sampson disclosed to Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty and others that the plan to fire the U.S. attorneys had begun more than two years earlier in the White House, contrary to what McNulty and another official had testified to Congress." (1, 2) -By Dan Eggen and Carol D. Leonnig with contributions by Amy Goldstein and Jerry Markon -WashingtonPost

20070430

Secret - Gonzales - Kyle Sampson - Monica Goodling - US Attorneys - Government - Law - Politics - "Secret Order By Gonzales Delegated Extraordinary Powers To Aides." ... "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales signed a highly confidential order in March 2006 delegating to two of his top aides -- who have since resigned because of their central roles in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys --extraordinary authority over the hiring and firing of most non-civil-service employees of the Justice Department. A copy of the order and other Justice Department records related to the conception and implementation of the order were provided to National Journal." ... "In the order, Gonzales delegated to his then-chief of staff, D. Kyle Sampson, and his White House liaison "the authority, with the approval of the Attorney General, to take final action in matters pertaining to the appointment, employment, pay, separation, and general administration" of virtually all non-civil-service employees of the Justice Department, including all of the department's political appointees who do not require Senate confirmation. Monica Goodling became White House liaison in April 2006, the month after Gonzales signed the order." ... "The existence of the order suggests that a broad effort was under way by the White House to place politically and ideologically loyal appointees throughout the Justice Department, not just at the U.S.-attorney level. Department records show that the personnel authority was delegated to the two aides at about the same time they were working with the White House in planning the firings of a dozen U.S. attorneys, eight of whom were, in fact, later dismissed." ... "The senior administration official who had firsthand knowledge of the plan said that Gonzales and other Justice officials had a "clear obligation" to disclose the plan's existence to the House and Senate Judiciary committees -- but the official said that, as far as he knew, they had not done so. When the committees began to inquire into the firings of the U.S. attorneys, the official said, Congress had a right to know that the firings were part of an ambitious effort to install administration loyalists throughout the department." ... "The official added, "The president of the United States [Republican George Bush] has said it was imperative for the attorney general, and the attorney general alone, to re-establish trust with the Congress to keep his job … and you have, even after the president has said that, the attorney general and his men stiffing Congress."" -By Murray Waas -NationalJournal

20070402

Gonzales - Monica Goodling - US Attorneys - Politics - "DOJ Official Brings Storm by Taking the Fifth in Gonzales Flap." ... "Taking the Fifth Amendment is everybody's right. But it's a choice that can send up a red flag, often invoked by people who have something to hide. Think of Enron's Andrew Fastow and Iran-Contra's Oliver North." ... "So when Monica Goodling said last week that she would refuse to talk to Congress about the firing of eight U.S. Attorneys, it was hard not to wonder what this 33-year-old party loyalist may have done wrong." ... "Her pre-emptive move (Congress has yet to issue a subpoena) immediately raised questions, innuendo and gossip: Was she trying to avoid incriminating herself in a crime (and if so, what crime?), or, as her attorneys claimed, was she merely afraid that in the "perilous" partisan environment, even an innocent witness could end up in trouble?" ... "For someone like Goodling, criminal defense attorneys say, potential charges could include perjury, making false statements to Congress, or even aiding and abetting the preparation of false testimony -- something her lawyers say a senior Justice official has put into play by alleging that Goodling "did not inform him of certain pertinent facts" before making his report to the Senate." ... "There's also a whole category of obstruction of justice charges, if, for example, a U.S. Attorney was removed just as he was preparing a public-corruption indictment." ... "And, notes defense attorney Jensen Barber, there's a bit of the unknown: "God knows what a prosecutor could think up. You could clearly have some sort of fraud."" -By T.R. Goldman and Emma Schwartz -LegalTimes.com via -Law.com

20070327

Gonzales - Monica Goodling - US Attorneys - Political - Law Enforcement - VT - "Aide to Gonzales Won't Testify: Counselor Cites Fifth Amendment Right in Refusal." ... "Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's senior counselor [Monica M. Goodling] yesterday refused to testify in the Senate about her involvement in the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, invoking her Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination." ... "Goodling's refusal to testify illustrates the rising political and legal stakes surrounding the removal of the federal prosecutors, and underscores the fissures developing among Gonzales and his current and former senior aides as the attorney general struggles to keep his job." ... "The decision means a senior aide to the nation's top law enforcement official is in the remarkable position of refusing to testify for fear of implicating herself in a crime. Her lawyer portrays the move as strategic and says she has done nothing wrong." ... "House and Senate Democrats said they were disappointed that Goodling would not testify. Several raised questions about her motives." ... ""The American people are left to wonder what conduct is at the base of Ms. Goodling's concern that she may incriminate herself in connection with criminal charges if she appears before the committee under oath," said [Vermont Democratic Senator] Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee." (1, 2) -By Dan Eggen with contributions by Peter Baker and Paul Kane -WashingtonPost

20070326

Gonzales - Monica Goodling - Paul McNulty - Domenici - US Attorneys - Politics - NY - NM - 2006 Election - "Gonzales Aide to Invoke Fifth Amendment." ... "Attorney General Alberto Gonzales' liaison [Monica Goodling] with the White House will refuse to answer questions at upcoming Senate hearings about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, citing her Fifth Amendment protection against self-incrimination, her lawyer said Monday." ... "Goodling's statement contradicted her boss' promise to allow his top aides to testify before Congress, voluntarily and under oath." ... "[New York Democratic Senator] Sen. Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., who is leading the Senate's investigation into the firings, said Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty told him he was misled by other Justice Department aides before he testified to Schumer's panel on Feb. 6." ... "A day earlier, Goodling was among those who helped McNulty prepare his testimony. Schumer has said McNulty may have given Congress incomplete or otherwise misleading information about the circumstances of the firings." ... "Additionally, Goodling was involved in an April 6, 2006, phone call between the Justice Department and [New Mexico Republican Senator] Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M., who had complained to the Bush administration and the president about David Iglesias, then the U.S. attorney in Albuquerque [New Mexico]. Domenici had wanted Iglesias to push more aggressively on a corruption probe against Democrats before the 2006 elections." ... "Iglesias told Congress earlier this month that he rejected what he believed to be pressure from Domenici to rush indictments that would have hurt Democrats in the November elections." ... "At a March 13 news conference, Gonzales denied that he participated in discussions or saw any documents about the firings, despite documents that show he attended a Nov. 27 meeting with senior aides on the topic, where he approved a detailed plan to carry out the dismissals." -By Laurie Kellman with contributions by Lara Jakes Jordan -AP via -SFGate.com

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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