March 29, 2007
Gonzales, U.S. Attorneys Have Sit-Downs Over Firings
On Tuesday this blog predicted that Gonzales was having sit downs with U.S. Attorneys during his week-long national sexual predator awareness public awareness campaign.
Now the New York Times reports in Thursday’s edition that this was exactly what the Attorney General was doing:
While Mr. Gonzales’s trip was part of a long-scheduled tour, he has been meeting in recent days with prosecutors in an effort to repair the damage caused by the dismissals.
Gonzales met with U.S. Attorneys from Western states while in Denver. In Chicago he met with Patrick Fitzgerald, Special Prosecutor of Scoober Libby fame and Chicago U.S. Attorney. Also in attendance, the Times reports, were “Steven M. Biskupic and Erik C. Peterson of Wisconsin; Joseph S. Van Bokkelen of Indiana; Craig S. Morford of Tennessee; and James A. McDevitt of Washington State.”

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