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To: illyia who wrote (102289)	3/17/2007 6:36:27 PM
From: Karen Lawrence	Respond to of 361650

probably old news to you all re: gonzales ABC News disclosed a new round of internal emails - slated for release to Congress as soon as Friday - that show senior White House adviser Karl Rove closely tied to the January 2005 genesis of a plan to fire all 93 U.S. attorneys, in direct contradiction to statements made by the White House. The emails also reveal that Gonzales was aware of the plan before he moved from the White House counsel’s office to the Justice Department in early 2005. “It is now imperative that [Rove] testify before Congress and give all the details of his involvement,” Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.), chairman of the Senate Judiciary subcommittee with jurisdiction over U.S. attorneys. Schumer said DoJ sources have confirmed the veracity of the Rove report to him, but could not confirm ABC News’ accounts concerning Gonzales. White House Counsel Fred Fielding has told senators he would report back to them with more documents and a response on testimony requests on Friday. Also Thursday, Sen. Gordon Smith (R-Ore.), running for reelection in 2008 in a reliably Democratic state, became the second GOP lawmaker to openly call for Gonzales to resign. Schumer said he believed the White House was in the thick of considerations over whether Gonzales should go. Another explosive report in National Journal charges that Gonzales advised President Bush to bar investigators for the Justice Department inspector general from receiving the security clearances needed to probe Justice’s use of information from the government's warrantless wiretapping program. According to National Journal, Gonzales urged the denial of those security clearances, which halted the inspector general's work until a similar probe was restarted last November, after hearing that the attorney general would be among the inquiry’s targets. thehill.com