{"id":2428,"date":"2007-07-03T10:12:16","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T16:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=2428"},"modified":"2017-05-21T02:16:47","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T08:16:47","slug":"doj-documents-show-sampson-deleted-email","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/07\/doj-documents-show-sampson-deleted-email\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ Documents Show Sampson Deleted Email"},"content":{"rendered":"

<\/a>Matt Renner, t r u t h o u t<\/p>\n

An internal Department of Justice email dealing with a series of the most controversial aspects of the US attorney firing scandal was deleted by a DOJ official the day after Congress began to address the firings. Three months later, the official told Congressional investigators he had not destroyed any documents or deleted any records relating to the US attorney firings.<\/p>\n

…\u00c2\u00a0Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and a central coordinator of the US attorney purge, deleted an official email on January 12, 2007. The email was a correspondence between Sampson and the DOJ White House Liaison Monica Goodling that dealt with the controversial appointment of GOP loyalist Tim Griffin to the post of US attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas.<\/p>\n

Three months after this email was deleted from Sampson’s computer, he was interviewed behind closed doors by Congressional investigators. According to a Senior Congressional Aide with access to the non-public transcript of the interview, Sampson was asked directly if he destroyed documents or emails relating to the US attorney purge. He answered “No.” The Congressional aide asked to remain anonymous because the interview transcript has not been made public.<\/p>\n

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