Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy/External links: April 2007

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The following are articles and commentary for April 2007 related to the Bush administration U.S. attorney firings controversy. This section is Part 1 and covers April 1 through April 15, 2007.

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Articles & Commentary

April 1

• "Senator demands AG clear Iglesias' name," Associated Press (USA TODAY), April 1, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, "Meet Monica 'Buzz Saw' Goodling," TPMmuckraker, April 1, 2007.

April 2

• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 2, 2007:

• "Today's Must Read"
• "Hatch Shreds His Way Through U.S.A. Scandal"
• "The USA Purge Scandal at Your Fingertips"

• Marcy Wheeler (emtpywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 2, 2007:

• "Responding to Congressional Oversight, Part One"
• "White House Tries to Pre-Empt Evidence-Gathering"
• "Domestic Spying and Opposition Research"

April 3

• Lara Jakes Jordan, "Gonzales Preps for Senate Showdown," Associated Press (TIME), April 3, 2007.
• Julie Hirschfeld Davis, "Dems Seek to Interview Gonzales Aide," Associated Press (TIME), April 3, 2007.
• James Rowley, "House Seeks to Question Aide on Fifth Amendment Claim (Update3)," Bloomberg News, April 3, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 3, 2007:

• "Senator: Gonzales Was Set to 'Gum This To Death'"
• "Dems Press Gonzales on Justice Aide"
• "Dems to Goodling: No, Really"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 3, 2007:

• "Did Abu Gonzales Lawyer Up?"
• "Responding to Congressional Oversight, Part Two"
• "Reading Patrick"

April 4

• Susan Crabtree and Elana Schor, "N.M.’s Domenici, Wilson face more questions about Iglesias," The Hill, April 4, 2007.
• Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball, "Docked for Duty?" Newsweek (MSNBC), April 4, 2007: "The Justice Department called David Iglesias, the U.S. attorney in New Mexico, an 'absentee landlord'—a key reason listed for his firing last December. Just one problem: Iglesias, a captain in the Navy Reserve, was off teaching classes as part of the war on terror. Now Iglesias is striking back, arguing he was improperly dismissed."
• "Justice Aide Won't Talk To House Panel," Associated Press (CBS News), April 4, 2007.
• Richard A. Serrano, "No informal interview, key Gonzales aide says," Chicago Tribune, April 4, 2007.
• Daniel Bice, "Who complained about prosecutions?" Milwaukee JournalSentinel, April 4, 2007.
• Clarice Feldman, "What Links the AIPAC case to the Fired US Attorneys?" American Thinker Blog, April 4, 2007.
• Rob Kall, "Jail Monica if She Doesn't Show," OpEdNews, April 4, 2007.
• Larry Beinhart, "Prosecutor Scandal Is the Beginning of Bush's End," BuzzFlash (AlterNet), April 4, 2007.
• "New Mexico lawmakers face increased scrutiny due to 'Attorneygate'," The Raw Story, April 4, 2007.
• "Prosecutorgate is not about Alberto Gonzales. It's about impeachment," And, yes, I DO take it personally Blog, April 4, 2007.
• David Iglesias, BuzzFlash "Wings of Justice" Award, April 4, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 4, 2007:

• "New Mexico Pols Still in Trouble"
• "Lawyer to Dems: No No No No"
• "Newsweek: Agency to Investigate Iglesias Firing"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "Henry Says: Give Us the E-mails," The Next Hurrah Blog, April 4, 2007.

April 5

• Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, "Gonzales Prepares to Fight for His Job in Testimony," Washington Post, April 5, 2007.
• "Justice aide refuses to meet House panel on attorney firings. Goodling's lawyers say Democrats acting like Joseph McCarthy," Associated Press (Baltimore Sun), April 5, 2007.
• Jennifer Talhelm, "Ex-Prosecutor Talks to Special Counsel," Associated Press (Washington Post), April 5, 2007.
• "Feds probe whether Reserve duty cost U.S. attorney's job," CNN, April 5, 2007.
• Linda Young, "Update: Ironic Twist, Missing Work To Serve In Naval Reserve Unit May Have Cost U.S. Prosecutor His Job," All Headline News, April 5, 2007.
• "Senators Want Gonzales' Account of Firings Before Public Testimony," Fox News, April 5, 2007.
• Massimo Calabresi, "Washington Memo: Taking On Gonzales," TIME Magazine, April 5, 2007.
• "Was Reversed Wisconsin 'Corruption' Case Related to Partisan Politics at US DOJ? State Senator Suggests, Yes," Faithful Progressive Blog, April 5, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 5, 2007:

• "Today's Must Read"
• "Former Ashcroft Spokesman: Gonzales Should Resign"
• "Leahy to Gonzales: Answers, Please"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 5, 2007:

• "Monica Goodling and Kenny Boy Lay"
• "Gonzales' Hack Prep Coaches" re Ed Gillespie and Timothy E. Flanigan

April 6

• Editorial: "Acting attorney general," PalmBeachPost.com, April 6, 2007: "Three-plus weeks into the controversy over the firing of eight U.S. attorneys, this is the best defense Attorney General Alberto Gonzales can make: I'm not in charge of the Justice Department."
• Paul Kane, "Justice Department In New Fight Over Papers on Firings," Washington Post, April 6, 2007.
• Lara Jakes Jordan, "Senators demand details from Gonzales. Say testimony must wait until information given," Associated Press (Boston Globe; ABC News), April 6, 2007.
• Dan Browning and Pam Louwagie, "3 federal prosecutors quit manager posts. They left their management jobs with the Minnesota U.S. Attorney's Office and will go back to prosecuting cases," StarTribune.com, April 6, 2007.
• Gene Gaudette, "Rachel Paulose vs. Public Integrity. Minnesota prosecutors fire a warning shot across the bow of the SS Gonzales," American Politics Journal, April 6, 2007.
• Michael Roston, "Gonzales criticized for holding up documents, answers to questions," The Raw Story, April 6, 2007.
• "Second Gonzales aide resigns over US attorney flap," Reuters (ABC News), April 6, 2007.
• Zachary Goldfarb, "April 8th Preview: Iraq, U.S. Attorneys and 2008," The Talk Blog / Washington Post, April 6, 2007.
• Will Thomas, "GOP Anti-Alberto Roll Call," TPMmuckraker, April 6, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 6, 2007:

• "Under Bush, Civil Rights Division Works to Protect... Whites"
• "Congress to Press DoJ for Withheld Documents"
• "Wisconsin Case Raises Eyebrows"
• "CNN: Goodling to Resign from Justice Department"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 6, 2007:

• "No $$$ Until You Hand Over the Documents"
• "You Think Maybe Vern Knows Something We Don't?" re Rep. Vern Ehlers (R-Mich.)
• "Three Sentences"

April 7

• Andrew Cohen, "Rough Justice - The Case Against Alberto Gonzales" (4-part series), Bench Conference Blog/Washington Post, April 7, 2007.
• "Gonzales aide resigns after saying she won't testify on fired prosecutors," Associated Press (International Herald Tribune), April 7, 2007.
• Richard A. Serrano, "Another key Gonzales advisor resigns. Monica Goodling, senior counsel to the attorney general, had declined to testify about the firings of 8 federal prosecutors," Los Angeles Times, April 7, 2007.
• David Stout and David Johnston, "Aide to Gonzales Resigns, Becoming Latest Casualty," New York Times, April 7, 2007.
• David Johnston, "3 aides to US attorney in Minn. step down. Some associates view act as protest," New York Times News Service (Boston Globe), April 7, 2007. re Steve Biskupic
• Shannon Prather, "U.S. attorneys' revolt heard all the way to Capitol Hill. Top Democrat says Minnesota resignations the latest twist in growing Justice controversy," Pioneer Press (MN), April 7, 2007.
• Dahlia Lithwick, "Who's the Boss? How Pat Robertson's law school is changing America," Slate, April 7, 2007. re Regent University
• Mash, "Rachel Paulose Takes The Back Door To 'Success'," Daily Kos, April 7, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "David : Nice Touch!" The Next Hurrah Blog, April 7, 2007.

April 8

• Trish, "Bush: Attorney Firings Just Need Better Press," Pensito Review, April 8, 2007.
• Charlie Savage, "Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school. Grads influential in Justice Dept.," Boston Globe, April 8, 2007.
• Dahlia Lithwick, "Justice's Holy Hires," Washington Post, April 8, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "Monica Goodling's Loyalty Oaths. Again," The Last Hurrah Blog, April 8, 2007.

April 9

• Rob Kall, "Bush's Monica -- No Blowjob -- Just Screwing," OpEdNews, April 9, 2007.
• Jason McLure, "Clement to Supervise Gonzales Investigation," The BLT Blog/Legal Times, April 9, 2007. re Solicitor General Paul Clement
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 9, 2007:

• "U.S. Attorney Investigation: Meet The New Boss"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 9, 2007:

• "I Smell a Subpoena Coming On"
• "Courtney Elwood Shreds the Constitution" re Courtney Simmons Elwood

• Kagro X, "The coming Justice Department disaster," The Next Hurrah Blog, April 9, 2007.
• MrMichaelMT, "Beware Sleeper Cell in the U.S.A.," Daily Kos, April 9, 2007.

April 10

• Dan Eggen, "House Panel Subpoenas Gonzales for Documents," Washington Post, April 10, 2007.
• "Gonzales gets subpoena for documents," Reuters, April 10, 2007.
• Dan Eggen, "Six U.S. Attorneys Given 2nd Posting in Washington," Washington Post, April 10, 2007: "growing reliance on federal prosecutors to fill Washington-based jobs"; also see sidebar listing of the six attorneys.
• Richard A. Serrano, "Senators press Gonzales for more documents. They think there is more to learn about the firings of eight federal prosecutors last year," Los Angeles Times, April 10, 2007.
• Brian Tumulty, "Kohl, Feingold seek documents from Gonzales," Gannett News Service (TheNorthwestern.com), April 10, 2007.
• Brent Kremer, "Now we know how U.S. Attorneys kept their jobs," An Angry Dakota Democrat Blogspot, April 10, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 10, 2007:

• "Favored U.S. Attorneys Pull Double Duty"
• "Congress Presses for Justice Docs"
• "Dems Demand Docs Related to Wisconsin Case"
• "House Dems Subpoena Justice Department Documents"
• "Gonzales Taps CT U.S. Attorney as Chief of Staff"
• "Justice Dept Looks Set to Fight Subpoenas"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 10, 2007:

• "Why They Used a Discharge Petition to Approve Paulose"
• "bcc: Karl Rove"

April 11

• Dan Froomkin, "Portrait of a Flailing White House," Washington Post, April 11, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah, April 11, 2007:

• "The Lobbying for USA Jobs Begins"
• "Well, I Guess GWB43.com Really Is the Smoking Gun"

April 12

• Tom Hamburger, "Officials' e-mails may be missing, White House says. Democrats in Congress want messages from private system for probe of U.S. attorney firings," Los Angeles Times, April 12, 2007.
• "50 White House officials have used RNC accounts," Think Progess, April 12, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 12, 2007:

• "Here's an Interesting Detail, Abu Gonzales Edition"
• "Another Interesting Detail, Karl Rove Edition"
• "The Emails Aren't the Only Thing the WH Is Stalling On"
• "Sampson's Outstanding Questions"
• "95%"

April 13

• David Johnston, "Gonzales Aide Suggested Replacements for Attorneys," New York Times, April 13, 2007.
• Ari Shapiro, "Documents Show Justice Ranking U.S. Attorneys," NPR, April 13, 2007.
• Smintheus, "NPR blows US Attorneys story wide open," Daily Kos, April 13, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 13, 2007:

• "USA Chart Shows Federalist Society Membership"
• "You Call That A Contradiction?"
• "Talking Points Echo"
• "Lawyer: That's No Contradiction"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah Blog, April 13, 2007:

• "The Case of Patrick Fitzgerald and the Missing Emails"
• "Rove's Hadley E-mail"

April 14

• Dan Eggen and Paul Kane, "Gonzales Aide Floated Replacements Early On," Washington Post, April 14, 2007.
• David Johnston and Eric Lipton, "E-Mail Identified G.O.P. Candidates for Justice Jobs," New York Times, April 14, 2007.
• Richard A. Serrano, "Replacements were debated, papers say. Insiders proposed as U.S. attorneys, memos show," Baltimore Sun, April 14, 2007.
• Marisa Taylor and Margaret Talev, "E-mail contradicts testimony. A former Gonzales aide's message offered suggestions to replace fired U.S. attorneys," McClatchy Newspapers (The News & Observer), April 14, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), "Oh to know what Fred's thinking," firedoglake, April 14, 2007.
• Marcy Wheeler, The Next Hurrah Blog, April 14, 2007:

• "Congressman Waxman: Interview Jenny Mayfield"
• "Cabinet Secretary Counsels"
• "The Green Zone at DOJ"

• Paul Kiel, "McClatchy: Wisconsin USA was on Purge List," TPMmuckraker, April 14, 2007.

April 15

• Margaret Talev and Marisa Taylor, "Gonzales could be back door to Rove," McClatchy Newspapers (The News & Observer), April 15, 2007.
• Editorial: "The Fantasy Behind the Scandal," New York Times, April 15, 2007.
• Joe Sudbay, "Did Bush make the decision to fire David Iglesias?" AMERICAblog, April 15, 2007.
• Christy Hardin Smith, "Illusions," firedoglake, April 15, 2007.
• Paul Kiel, TPMmuckraker, April 15, 2007:

• "Paper: Domenici Brought Prosecutor Complaint to White House"
• "Gonzales: U.S.A. Review Should Have Been 'More Rigorous'"

• Marcy Wheeler (emptywheel), The Next Hurrah, April 15, 2007:

• "I Guess He's STILL Not Up to a Sunday Show"
• "Questions for Abu Gonzales"
• "Battle Lines,"