In today’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearing, former chief of staff to Atttorney General Albert Gonzales confirmed that Gonzales was involved in the prosecutor purge.
Gonzales, 3/12/07:
“I was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on.”
Sampson, 3/29/07:
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“I don’t think the attorney general’s statement that he was not involved in any discussions of U.S. attorney removals was accurate.”
UPDATE: According to E&P;, Sampson said Gonzales was involved in “at least five” discussions about the U.S. attorney firings. (via Atrios)