According to Associated Press reports, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales approved plans to fire several U.S. attorneys in a November meeting-- based on documents released late Friday that contradict earlier claims that he was not closely involved in the dismissals. At the November 27 meeting, Gonzales signed off on a five-step "firing plan" crafted by his Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson, who last week was the first casualty of the firestorm.
In his initial March 13 statement regarding his involvement in the firings, Gonzales said, "I knew my chief of staff was involved in the process of determining who were the weak performers . . . But that is in essence what I knew about the process; was not involved in seeing any memos, was not involved in any discussions about what was going on. That's basically what I knew as the attorney general."
Remember-- this is from the same man who is "just not clear" whether his Mexican immigrant grandparents were undocumented or not.
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