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US Attorneys: Alberto Gonzales Crams For Hearings

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Michael Isikoff Newsweek: 'Isolated' Attorney General Crams for Hearings
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907C.shtml

Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has virtually wiped his public schedule clean to bone up for his long-awaited April 17 testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee - a session widely seen as a crucial test as to whether he will survive the US attorney mess. But even his own closest advisers are nervous about whether he is up to the task.

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The New York Times: Another Layer of Scandal
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/040907O.shtml

"As Congress investigates the politicization of the United States attorney offices by the Bush administration, it should review the extraordinary events the other day in a federal courtroom in Wisconsin. The case involved Georgia Thompson, a state employee sent to prison on the flimsiest of corruption charges just as her boss, a Democrat, was fighting off a Republican challenger," writes the New York Times.

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