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McKay: White House likely behind U.S. attorney firings
http://www.komotv.com/news/local/7429101.html

May 9, 2007 at 8:14 PM PDT
By KOMO Staff & News Services
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SEATTLE (AP) - Five months after they were fired, three former U.S. attorneys told a law school audience Wednesday they still don't know why they were targeted.

And they don't expect to be illuminated when U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales begins his second round of congressional testimony Thursday.

"I just hope I don't hear the words 'I don't recall' coming from his mouth very often," said David Iglesias, former U.S. attorney in New Mexico.

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McKay noted that no one in the Justice Department will admit to selecting him or the others to be terminated, raising the possibility that it was the White House that picked the names.

"I to this day do not know who fired me or why," he said. "To my knowledge, the deputy attorney general, the associate attorney general, their chiefs of staff, Monica Goodling, Kyle Samson nor anyone else will admit to putting any one of us on the list to be fired. Now, that leaves only the white house."

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