Reply #4: White House persists in refusing to provide information to the House Judiciary Committee

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House Democrat on Gonzales: The country cannot wait
Michael Roston
Published: Monday May 21, 2007
http://rawstory.com/news/2007/House_Democrat_on_Gonzales_The_country_0521.html


A Democratic Congressman who is pushing for a vote of no confidence against the Attorney General said in a late afternoon press conference that Alberto Gonzales had 'low regard' for the US Attorneys working for the Justice Department, and that the country cannot wait for the end of the Bush administration to bring his tenure to a close. ....

... in the House of Representatives today, Democratic Congress members who are investigating the firing of the 8 US Attorneys renewed their focus on another area of concern: the White House's role in deciding which Attorneys were and were not fired.

"Even without a single document or witness interview provided by the White House, it is clear that the White House played an important role in the events concerning the US Attorney controversy," Reps. John Conyers (D-MI) and Linda Sanchez (D-CA) wrote in a letter to White House Counsel Fred Fielding. "If the White House persists in refusing to provide information to the House Judiciary Committee, or even to discuss providing such information, on a voluntary basis, we will have no alternative but to begin to resort to the compulsory process in order to carry out our oversight responsibilities."