This is not a surprise.
Top White House political adviser Karl Rove coached a Justice Department staff member before he testified to a Congressional commitee in March, according to a report in Newsweek. Some investigators reportedly believe that he may have tried to "mislead" Congress.
"Although the existence of the White House meeting had been previously disclosed by the Justice Department, Rove's attendance at the strategy session was not—until both [Principal Associate Deputy Attorney General William] Moscella and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty talked about it in confidential testimony with congressional investigators last week," according to a Democratic aide who spoke with Newsweek's Michael Isikoff.
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Note: At least three participants in the March 5 meeting—Rove, Kelley and Kyle Sampson, then chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales—were aware of the White House role in pushing to have U.S. attorneys fired, according to another Justice Department official who attended the meeting but asked not to be identified talking about a private meeting. But the subject of the White House role in the firings never came up, the official said, because at that point, it had not become a prime focus of congressional interest. "Quite frankly, those weren’t the questions that Congress was asking at that point," said the official.
My question is where was Gonzo and his DAG McNulty? This current article tells you the main role of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General.
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