Welcome to Gonzales Watch - Blawging the Ex-Attorney General

You’d think that after federal prosecutors achieved a phenomenal track record in white collar criminal, corporate malfeasance, and obstruction of justice cases, the U.S. Attorney General would learn that e-mails can be a gold mine when it comes to putting the accused in a tough spot.

Apparently, Alberto Gonzales must never have taken a continuing legal education seminar on electronic evidence and discovery. The e-mail from Kyle Sampson placing Gonzales at a November 27, 2007 meeting to discuss firing U.S. Attorneys hasn’t disappeared. Gonzales was there with Sampson and other senor aides including Monica Goodling, Michael Battle, and Michael Elston is coming back to haunt the Attorney General.

Today the Washington Post reports that Michael Battle, the former Director of the DOJ’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, told Senate and House investigators that Gonzales was not only at the meeting, but that “a memo on the firings was distributed” to those attending it.

Gonzales’ former Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson already placed Gonzales at the November 27, 2006 DOJ meeting on the firings.

Now that Battle has told investigators that Gonzales was privy to not only discussins but written materials on the firing of prosecutors at the meeting, he’s digging himself a deeper hole to get out of when testifying tomorrow.