salon.com March 20, 2007
As we noted earlier today, the documents the Justice Department has produced to the House Judiciary Committee show extensive efforts by Justice Department officials to limit the damage caused by firing eight U.S. attorneys and providing what is euphemistically known as “incomplete” information to Congress.
The documents contain relatively little evidence of White House efforts in the damage-control process. Does that mean the White House wasn’t involved? Not exactly. In a letter accompanying its latest document dump, Acting Assistant Attorney General Richard Hertling says the Justice Department is simply not handing over to the House Judiciary Committee documents that might tell more about what the White House did.
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