FBI raided me to take heat off Gonzales, says Congressman
Nick JulianoPublished: Monday May 7, 2007
Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), who has been under a cloud of suspicion related to his association with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, says the leak revealing that the FBI had raided his home last month in connection to an investigation of his wife's business was little more than a stunt to draw attention from the investigation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Writing in his hometown newspaper, Doolittle said the search was "an attempt to intimidate us and garner media attention," noting that news of the search emerged in a Capitol Hill newspaper just before Gonzales was to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"I do not believe it was a coincidence that the leak came the day before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before Congress on charges that his office was overly partisan in its firing of eight U.S. Attorneys," Doolittle wrote in the Auburn Journal, "especially considering Gonzales specifically cited his recent prosecution of Republican members of Congress as evidence to the contrary."
Doolittle noted that next month will mark three years since the FBI first contacted his wife, Julie, regarding her work with Abramoff, but he provided little in the way of details as to why the government is so interested in her work.
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Rep. John Doolittle (R-CA), who has been under a cloud of suspicion related to his association with convicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff, says the leak revealing that the FBI had raided his home last month in connection to an investigation of his wife's business was little more than a stunt to draw attention from the investigation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.
Writing in his hometown newspaper, Doolittle said the search was "an attempt to intimidate us and garner media attention," noting that news of the search emerged in a Capitol Hill newspaper just before Gonzales was to testify in front of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
"I do not believe it was a coincidence that the leak came the day before Attorney General Alberto Gonzales testified before Congress on charges that his office was overly partisan in its firing of eight U.S. Attorneys," Doolittle wrote in the Auburn Journal, "especially considering Gonzales specifically cited his recent prosecution of Republican members of Congress as evidence to the contrary."
Doolittle noted that next month will mark three years since the FBI first contacted his wife, Julie, regarding her work with Abramoff, but he provided little in the way of details as to why the government is so interested in her work.
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