A House Judiciary Committee lawyer said today the committee has received a "pretty good number of internal White House memos" through an agreement with the White House amid the investigation of the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006.
The documents "do provide more information" about the controversial firing of the Republican-appointed U.S. attorneys under then-Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, said Elliot Mincberg, chief counsel for oversights and investigations at the House Judiciary Committee, who spoke at a forum today on prosecution misconduct.
Mincberg said the documents produced through the agreement—click here for a copy of the agreement—remain confidential (for now) but said on-the-record depositions of Karl Rove and former White House counsel Harriet Miers will be made public. Miers met with House Judiciary staff earlier this month behind closed doors, according to published reports. Mincberg declined to say when Rove is expected to be deposed.
Mincberg said Attorney General Eric Holder Jr. has indicated he is going to reconsider the possibility of prosecuting Bradley Scholzman, former acting assistant attorney general of the Civil Rights Division, for alleged perjury stemming from his testimony on the Hill before the Senate committee investigating the U.S. attorney firings. Schlozman told the Senate Judiciary Committee that he did not consider political affiliation or ideology in department hiring. In January, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia formally declined to prosecute Scholzman.
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On side note: The Committee has no current intention to seek interviews of any additional former Bush White House personnel.
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