Documents Show Gonzales Approved Firings

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http://dailynews.att.net/cgi-bin/news?e=pri&dt=070323&cat=news&st=newsd8o281uo0&src=ap

By LARA JAKES JORDAN

WASHINGTON (AP) - Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting, according to documents released Friday that contradict earlier claims that he was not closely involved in the dismissals.

The Nov. 27 meeting, in which the attorney general and at least five top Justice Department officials participated, focused on a five-step plan for carrying out the firings of the prosecutors, Justice Department officials said late Friday.

There, Gonzales signed off on the plan, which was crafted by his chief of staff, Kyle Sampson. Sampson resigned last week amid a political firestorm surrounding the firings.

The documents indicated that the hour-long morning discussion, held in the attorney general's conference room, was the only time Gonzales met with top aides who decided which prosecutors to fire and how to do it.

Justice spokeswoman Tasia Scolinos said it was not immediately clear whether Gonzales gave his final approval to begin the firings at that meeting. Scolinos also said Gonzales was not involved in the process of selecting which prosecutors would be asked to resign.

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1. "Mistakes were made."

Has any News Org. bothered to ask Busholini &/or Gonzo exactly what those mistakes were?

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2. Gonzales

let his subordinates make up false reasons to fire US Attorneys? We know the performance reasons were not true.

Are we to believe that Kyle Sampson schemed to get rid of US Attorneys for ulterior reasons on his own initiative?

Bush>Miers>Rove>Gonzales>Sampson. They all knew. S**t rolls downhill.