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By Marisa Taylor
McClatchy Newspapers
Monday 05 March 2007
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Washington - A high-ranking Justice Department official told one of the U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration
that if any of them continued to criticize the administration for their ousters, previously undisclosed details about
the reasons they were fired might be released, two of the ousted prosecutors told McClatchy Newspapers.
While the U.S. attorney who got the call regarded the tone of the conversation as congenial, not intimidating, the
prosecutor nonetheless passed the message on to five other fired U.S. attorneys. One of them interpreted the reported
comments by Michael Elston, the chief of staff to Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, as a threat.
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By Eric Lichtblau
The New York Times
Tuesday 06 March 2007
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Washington - The former federal prosecutor in Maryland said Monday that he was forced out in early 2005 because of
political pressure stemming from public corruption investigations involving associates of the state's governor, a
Republican.
"There was direct pressure not to pursue these investigations," said the former prosecutor, Thomas M. DiBiagio. "The
practical impact was to intimidate my office and shut down the investigations."
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