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Senate Committee to Interview DoJ Officials

From The Washington Post:

[Attorney General Alberto] Gonzales gave in to Democratic demands that he allow five of his top aides to be interviewed by staff members from the Senate Judiciary Committee as part of its investigation into the motives behind the dismissals. Sen. Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said yesterday that those interviews will begin within two weeks.

The House Judiciary Committee also wants to hear from those same officials — it’s still unclear when or in what form that will happen, though.

The Post also has a good behind the scenes look at what Gonzales’ week has been like:

Sen. John Ensign (Nev.) has emerged as perhaps Gonzales’s toughest GOP critic in Congress. He remains furious that his state’s U.S. attorney, Daniel Bogden, was dismissed for no apparent reason other than a desire, expressed in congressional testimony by a Justice aide, for “new blood.”

Ensign summoned Gonzales to his Senate office on Thursday to discuss the matter, and Gonzales also dispatched Deputy Attorney General Paul J. McNulty to talk with Ensign, according to aides.

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