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By Greg Gordon, McClatchy Newspapers Another former Justice Department lawyer went before Congress on Wednesday with few answers for his Democratic interrogators and a spotty memory. Hans von Spakovsky, who’s seeking a full six-year term on the Federal Election Commission, deflected questions about whether he undermined voting rights laws, saying, “I was not the decision…

By Paul Kane, The Washington Post The Justice Department is refusing to release hundreds of pages of additional documents related to the firings of eight U.S. attorneys, setting up a fresh clash with Capitol Hill in a controversy that continues to threaten Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s hold on his position. The Senate Judiciary Committee,…

CBS News – WASHINGTON, March 8, 2007 Lawmakers Probing How White House Handled Exposed CIA Operative’s Identity (AP) Valerie Plame, the CIA operative exposed after her husband criticized President Bush’s march to war, will testify next week before lawmakers probing how the White House dealt with her identity, the chairman of the panel said Thursday….

By Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t A government watchdog group now says ten to twenty million White House emails, which may contain information about the leak of Valerie Plame Wilson’s covert CIA status, have been destroyed by the Bush administration. In a report from April, Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics…