Friday, June 15, 2007

Another USA to testify in attorney scandal today.

From the Post-Gazette:

Mary Beth Buchanan, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, is meeting this morning with investigators in Washington to discuss what she knows about the firings of eight federal prosecutors across the nation last year.

Ms. Buchanan, who served as director of the U.S. Justice Department's Executive Office for United States Attorneys from June 2004 to June 2005, will be questioned by Republican and Democratic investigators from both the House and Senate.

A staff member for the House Judiciary Committee, where the interview will occur, said it is scheduled for the entire day. Whether it lasts that long, the staff person said, depends on where the line of questioning takes her interrogators.

Ms. Buchanan's name entered the controversy over the U.S. attorney firings in April, when D. Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff for U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, said she was among people who were consulted about which prosecutors should be asked to resign.

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