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Documents Indicate Gonzales OK’d Firing of U.S. Attorneys

HeadlineMar 26, 2007

Newly released Justice Department documents show that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales indicates that he lied about his involvement in the recent dismissals of eight U.S. attorneys. Two weeks ago, Gonzales said, “I was not involved in seeing any memos, [and] was not involved in any discussion about what was going on.” However, the documents reveal that on Nov. 27 Gonzales met with five other officials from the Justice Department and signed off on a plan to fire the prosecutors.

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