Conyers blasts DoJ for ’selectively’ providing U.S. attorney docs.

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/09/10/conyers-wants-answers-from-doj-on-political-prosecutions/

Conyers blasts DoJ for ’selectively’ providing U.S. attorney docs.

In July, Chairman John Conyers (D-MI) and other members of the House Judiciary Committee wrote to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales requesting documents from U.S. Attorney’s offices that participated in prosecutions with political overtones. The Department has refused to turn over most of the documents. Now, Conyers and his colleagues want Gonzales to explain why DoJ is withholding the documents:

Since our original letter, even more evidence has come to light showing an aggressive effort run by White House political operatives to use the machinery of government for partisan advantage and establishing that top members of your staff attended political briefings led by Karl Rove. (…)

The few materials that the Department has provided are clearly insufficient. You have offered approximately 350 pages of public pleadings, but even this production has been limited to pleadings that represent the Government’s position in those matters.

We understand that the Committee may obtain publicly filed documents from the courts without the Department’s assistance, but we question the value of the Department selectively providing those few pleadings supporting its arguments but not providing any responsive pleadings or court decisions that present contrary arguments and facts.

[Richard Steele]

1. Par for the course with these shameless criminals. recommended.

[mod mom]

2. I hope Chairman Conyers got a little rest over the break because we need him to

get into high gear and kick some butt with these criminals. Resignations are not good enough-we need real justice to show these thugs that crime doesn't pay like it used to.

[babylonsister]

3. He's hinted that (the 'i' word) isn't totally out of the question now. I too

hope he's rested and raring to go.

[spanone]

4. he 'blasts' them. is that like arresting? or indicting? anything like that?

[rateyes]

5. :Uh oh. Conyers is mad again...

he'll get over it.

He always does.

Tired of talk, Mr. Conyers. When are you going to hold Rove and Miers in contempt? When is there going to be some bite behind the bark?

Like I said, he'll get over it.