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Senate panel subpoenas Rove e-mails
By TIMES WIRES
Published May 3, 2007
http://www.sptimes.com/2007/05/03/Worldandnation/Senate_panel_subpoena.shtml

The chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee, Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., on Wednesday subpoenaed Attorney General Alberto Gonzales to turn over all e-mails to or from White House political adviser Karl Rove in connection with the controversy over the firings last year of eight U.S. attorneys.

The subpoena suggests that the congressional inquiry is focusing on Rove and whether he shaped the firings and hirings of U.S. attorneys and whether the purge was influenced by GOP concerns about corruption inquiries and investigations of voter fraud in battleground states during the last election.

The White House also has instructed the Republican National Committee not to give Congress any Rove e-mails unless cleared by the White House.

Also Wednesday, the Justice Department said it is investigating whether its former White House liaison, Monica Goodling, used political affiliation in deciding whom to hire as entry-level prosecutors around the country. Such consideration would be a violation of federal law.

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Rove e-mails subpoenaed
By Klaus Marre
THE HILL | May 03, 2007
http://thehill.com/leading-the-news/rove-e-mails-subpoenaed-2007-05-02.html

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) issued a subpoena yesterday to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for all e-mails from White House adviser Karl Rove that relate to the 2006 firings of eight U.S. attorneys.

In a letter to Gonzales, Leahy also harshly criticized the Department of Justice (DoJ) for not being responsive to congressional requests for information.

“I continue to hope that the Department will cooperate with the Committee’s investigation, but it is troubling that significant documents highly relevant to the Committee’s inquiry have not been produced,” Leahy said.

The subpoena requires Gonzales to appear before the committee on May 15 and to provide “all e-mails and attachments to e-mails to, from, or copied to Karl Rove related to the Committee’s investigation into the preservation of prosecutorial independence and the Department of Justice’s politicization of the hiring and firing and decision-making of United States Attorneys.”