Karl Rove Lied About Clinton Administration Attorney Purge
(Ed. note: see late update at the end of this post)
Although I have not read them all, the documents the DOJ gave the House Judiciary Committee today are revealing. For starters, they confirm a lie Karl Rove recently made.
In a March 8 speech in Little Rock, AK, Karl Rove remarked that Bill Clinton “replaced all 93 U.S. attorneys” at the beginning of his administration. Former Clinton administration officials responded saying Rove’s claim was not true.
The documents released today prove Karl Rove flat out lied. In a January 9, 2006, memo from Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s chief of staff Kyle Sampson to then White House Counsel Harriet Miers, Sampson wrote:
During the Reagan and Clinton Administrations, Presidents Reagan and Clinton did not seek to remove and replace U.S. Attorneys they had appointed whose four-year terms had expired, but instead permitted such U.S. Attorneys to serve indefinitely under the holdover provision.
This can be found on page 20, third paragraph of this document (PDF). I have placed bookmarks in the document to help organize who did what when.
Late Update: The facts for this post may not be accurate. See this post for details.
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