House Panel Subpoenas Two More Fired Attys To Testify In Justice Dept Probe
Associated Press LAURIE KELLMAN March 5, 2007 09:07 PM
The probe into the Bush administration's firings of U.S. attorneys intensified Monday as lawmakers ordered two more ousted officials to tell their stories and the Justice Department said Republican Sen. Pete Domenici (news, bio, voting record) had complained repeatedly to the attorney general about one of the prosecutors.
The administration has said eight prosecutors were told to leave, all but one for performance-related reasons. However, Democrats have suggested ever more pointedly that politics was behind many of the dismissals, and the Domenici revelation fueled that idea.
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The probe into the Bush administration's firings of U.S. attorneys intensified Monday as lawmakers ordered two more ousted officials to tell their stories and the Justice Department said Republican Sen. Pete Domenici (news, bio, voting record) had complained repeatedly to the attorney general about one of the prosecutors.
The administration has said eight prosecutors were told to leave, all but one for performance-related reasons. However, Democrats have suggested ever more pointedly that politics was behind many of the dismissals, and the Domenici revelation fueled that idea.
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