Here’s Kyle Sampson’s testimony about suggesting to White House counsel Harriet Miers and deputy White House counsel Bill Kelley that they remove U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald.
Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) asks if Fitzgerald was ever considered for removal?
Sampson says:
“On one occasion in 2006, in discussing the removal of U.S. attorneys… that I was speaking with Harriet Miers and Bill Kelley and I raised Pat Fitzgerald, and immediately after I did it, I regretted it. I thought, I knew it was the wrong thing to do, I knew it was inappropriate. And I remember at the time that Harriet Miers and Bill Kelley just looked at me…. I said, “Patrick Fitzgerald could be added to this list.”… They just looked at me.”
Durbin asks why he suggested that. And Sampson says he doesn’t know why, that maybe it was just to “get a reaction out of them.”