May 2, 2007
Senate Subpoenas Attorney General Gonzales For Rove E-Mails Between DOJ, White House
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- Dept. of Justice
- Senate Judiciary Committee
- Karl Rove
- Sen. Charles Schumer
- Sen. Arlen Specter
- Sen. Patrick Leahy
- White House Counsel
- Gonzales Supboena
The Senate Judiciary Committee issued a subpoena to U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today compelling the U.S. Department of Justice’s chief lawyer to produce “any and all e-mails and attachments to e-mails to, from, or copies to Karl Rove related to the Committee’s investigation” into politically motivated “hiring and firing and decision-making of United States Attorneys.”
The subpoena covers e-mail accounts at the White House, Republican National Committee, or “other account, in the possession, custody or control of the Department of Justice.”
Here is the Committee’s subpoena and formal demand.
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