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Key Figure In US Attorney Firings Can Still Practice Law, Court Rules

Zachary Roth | August 25, 2009, 6:10PM

Former Bush Admn. Justice staffer Kyle Sampson

Via National Law Journal (sub. req.)...

This one'll make your skin crawl...

Kyle Sampson, the Bush Justice Department staffer who played perhaps the most active operational role in the U.S. attorney firings, has been granted a rare waiver to practice law in Washington D.C., despite an ongoing criminal investigation into the scandal.

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Topics: Alberto Gonzales, Justice Department, Kyle Sampson, U.S. Attorneys

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Did Christie Play Politics With Probe? U.S. Attorney Docs Add To Questions

Zachary Roth | August 12, 2009, 4:28PM

Those newly released documents from the U.S. attorney firings raise a few questions about the Republican who may be his party's highest profile electoral contender this year.

That's Chris Christie, the former U.S. attorney from New Jersey, who's also leading incumbent Jon Corzine in that state's race for governor.

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Topics: Alberto Gonzales, Chris Christie, Harriet Miers, Justice Department, Karl Rove, Kyle Sampson, Michael Elston, U.S. Attorneys

Alberto Gonzales

Gonzo: My Time As AG Hurt My Reputation

Justin Elliott | August 10, 2009, 10:25AM

The Alberto Gonzales self-rehabilitation tour continues?

The former Attorney General, who launched a mini media blitz in May, is back, this time trying his hand with New York Times magazine interviewer Deborah Solomon.

Among other tidbits, Gonzo says he hasn't talked to George W. Bush since the president left office. And he confirms that no law firm has offered him a job in the years since he resigned. (Though his lawyer told TPMmuckraker in May he was engaged in unspecified "legal work.")