U.S. Attorney Purge Scandal: The Week AheadI think they call this running the gauntlet. Get ready, Alberto.
From the AP:
On Monday, the Justice Department plans to turn over to Congress more documents that could provide more details of the role agency officials — including Gonzales — and top White House officials played in planning the prosecutors’ dismissals.On Tuesday, the White House is expected to announce whether it will let former White House counsel Harriet Miers, political strategist Karl Rove and other presidential advisers testify before Congress — and whether it will release more documents to lawmakers, including additional e-mails and other items. That decision was to be made on Friday, but the White House asked for more time.
On Thursday, lawmakers are scheduled to quiz Gonzales about his agency’s budget request, but likely will ask questions about the scandal, too.
Also on Thursday, the Senate Judiciary Committee has scheduled a vote on whether to authorize subpoenas for Miers; her deputy, William K. Kelley; and Rove, who said the controversy is being fueled by “superheated political rhetoric.”…
And if Gonzales doesn’t have enough on his plate, two congressional panels are holding hearings on the FBI’s misuse of the USA Patriot Act to secretly pry out personal information about Americans.