BREAKING: New Justice Dept email contradicts Gonzales' written testimony submitted for this week's hearing
by John Aravosis (DC) · 4/16/2007 06:23:00 PM ET
Count the hours before this man resigns. The hearing on Thursday is going to be the likes of which Washington hasn't seen in decades. Alberto Gonzales just got caught lying to the committee AGAIN. More from ABC News:
The e-mail, which came from Gonzales aide Kyle Sampson, appeared to contradict the prepared written testimony Gonzales submitted to Congress over the weekend in advance of his Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday. In his prepared testimony, Gonzales said that during the months that his senior staff was evaluating U.S. attorneys, including Lam, "I did not make the decisions about who should or should not be asked to resign."
But the recently released e-mail from Sampson, dated June 1, 2006, indicated that Gonzales was actively involved in discussions about Lam and had decided to fire her if she did not improve. In the e-mail to other top Justice Department officials, Sampson outlined several steps that Gonzales suggested, culminating in Lam's replacement if she failed to bolster immigration enforcement.
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