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Attorney General Alberto Gonzales did not comply with the subpoena that the House Committee on the Judiary served him with last week.

The subpoena required him to produce undisclosed documents in the U.S. Attorney firings investigation by 2:00 p.m. today.

When the House Committee on the Judiciary served Attorney General Alberto Gonzales with a subpoena yesterday, it was not breaking new ground.

According to the Washington Post,  Clinton Attorney General Janet Reno was served with a subpoena by a Republican-led House Committee “for refusing to turn over internal Justice Department memos.”

Here is the subpoena issued by the House Committee on the Judiciary that was being served upon U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales today. It was signed by Rep. John Conyers (Dem. - Mich.), the Committee’s Chair.

The documents being subpoenaed are due at the Committee’s office by 2:00 p.m. EST on Monday, April 16, 2007, one day before Gonzales is due to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee.

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was subpoenaed by the House Judiciary Committee this morning over his alleged failure to comply with repeated document disclosure requests looking into the U.S. Attorney firings scandal.

The letter from House Judiciary Chair John Conyers, with an attached subpoena, seeks “complete electronic information…responsive [to the Committee’s previous requests.”

It ups the pressure on the country’s lead federal prosecutor to turnover documents by no later than next Monday, April 16, 2007 — one day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s hearing where Gonzales is scheduled to testify under oath about his role and knowledge of events in the increasingly clear non-performance related, political motivated firings of career prosecutors after numerous complaints from GOP members of Congress were reportedly made to the White House.

The subpoena was served by Elliot M. Minceberg, the Chief Counsel of Oversight and Investigations for the House Committee on the Judiciary.