A week before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee, the House Judiciary Committee did not want to be outdone and so they issued a subpoena for records relating to the firing and performance valuations of US attorneys.
They seem to want to get the paperwork before the testimony before the Senate takes place. Specifically they want unredacted papers on the matter especially as it relates to any documents associated with the firing of the eight US attorneys, and an unredacted rating and performance evaluation of the entire 93 US attorneys that were originally targeted for firing.
The Senate is also expanding its probe into the matter surrounding this issue as it relates to some of the prosecutions that were taking place via some of these US attorneys.
Senate Democrats took another step today to expand the scope of an ongoing probe beyond the dismissals themselves. Wisconsin's two Democratic senators, Russ Feingold and Herb Kohl, joined others in demanding records and other information about a disputed federal public corruption prosecution in that state, according to a letter to Gonzales.
A federal appeals court in Chicago last week ordered a former Wisconsin state employee released after overturning her conviction in the case, which one judge criticized as based on thin evidence. The case was cited prominently by Republicans during an unsuccessful challenge of Wisconsin's Democratic governor last year.
Link to House Panel Subpoenas Gonzales for Documents - washingtonpost.com
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