By Jason Leopold
The Public Record
Wednesday, December 03, 2008
A grand jury in Washington, D.C. has issued subpoenas related to a special counsel's investigation into the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys in 2006, people familiar with the probe said.
Attorney General Michael Mukasey appointed Nora Dannehy, an assistant U.S. Attorney in Connecticut, special counsel in September following an internal Justice Department probe into the attorney firings.
Dannehy faced a Nov. 30 deadline to turn over a preliminary report to Mukasey on her investigation. She is looking into the possibility that former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, former Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, former Gonzales Chief of Staff and others committed perjury, obstructed justice when they testified before Congress about the firings last year, and perhaps broke other federal laws. Gonzales, Sampson and McNulty resigned in disgrace last year.
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