The next showdown with the WH will occur later this week. There are many unanswered questions, going back to the start of Bush's second term, regarding WH involvement to push out the "non-Bushies" among the sitting US attorneys under the guise of poor performance.
There is also the issue, in one case, of potential WH attempt to interfer in a probe of Dusty" Foggo as part of the Cunningham corruption scandal.
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(US attorney) Lam notified the Justice Department on May 10, 2006, that she planned to serve search warrants on Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, who'd resigned two days earlier as the No. 3 official at the CIA.
On May 11, 2006, Kyle Sampson, then Gonzales' chief of staff, sent an e-mail to deputy White House counsel William Kelley, asking Kelley to call to discuss "the real problem we have right now with Carol Lam that leads me to conclude that we should have someone ready to be nominated on 11/18, the day her 4-year term expires."
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansas...s/16931329.htm
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Will Bush allow Rove, Harriet Miers and William Kelley, the deputy White House counsel, to testify voluntarily? Will they comply with a subpoena? Or will they roll out the fallacious argument that senior advisors to the Pres are covered by executive privilege.
Or will the WH cut a deal to push Gonzales out if the Senate Judiciary Committee agrees to backs off on WH testimony?