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April 19, 2007 at 17:28:01

HEARINGS: Senator Whitehouse (D-RI) Unveils Flowchart of White House/Justice Department Communications Expansion

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In today's televised Senate Judiciary Committee's hearings, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI) presented a chart that illustrates the great extent that the Justice Department and White House communications have expanded under Gonzales's leadership. Under Bush/Gonzales over 400 persons within the White House and Department of Justice - as a matter of policy - can freely interact on official business. Unprecedented!! In the Clinton White House under AG Janet Reno, there were only seven. How many of these 400 plus individuals had RNC email accounts? What guarantees were there that specific cases and evidence were not being discussed? What guarantees or checks/balances were in place to insure that political partisan influence was not in play? How many of these 400 plus individuals were involved in the US Attorney firings? Did one of them 'author' the list?

Whitehouse presented the perfect flowchart for Congress to begin the issuance of Senate subpoenas for White House and Department of Justice officials. His questioning and pictorial display of the chaotic management of the Justice Department under Gonzales was groundbreaking and the most revealing evidence yet of how politicized our legal system has become. It depicts exactly who in the White House and Justice Department were authorized to communicate with each other.

The only response or explanation Gonzales had to offer was that it indeed appeared problematic. No wonder the White House has accidently "erased" 5 million emails.

I would ask that anyone who has video of Senator Whitehouse's questioning of Gonzales on White House/DoJ communications policy, please send it to OpEdNews at innovator2day@gmail.com.

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Tim Riley is a father, husband, technical writer, and internet news hound avidly interested in progressive politics, environmentalism, social justice, and playing with his two children.
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Tim Riley is a father, husband, technical writer, and internet news hound avidly interested in progressive politics, environmentalism, social justice, and playing with his two children.

Let's get it from the source.

I just sent this to Senator Whitehouse by his web page e-mail. Hopefully we get a prompt response.

Thank you for your insightful and sharp questioning of the Attorney General today.

Interested Americans would like to take action and view and inspect the excellent chart and testimony that you presented during today's Senate Judiciary Committee.

Please publish your presentation, line of questioning, and post your chart online so that we can link to the page (or download it). Your work deserves more atttention from those Americans who care very much about maintaining what shreds of impartiality may remain with the good career employees at the Department of Justice.

We are all very concerned, if not outraged, at the continued evasiveness of the Attorney General and we appreciate continued action, oversight, and probable censure, if not calls for resignation, given measured and reasoned deliberations.

Your testimony was the subject of an article published in OpEdNews.org with calls to readers to capture your presentation and testimony on CSPAN. I will catch the replay tonight, but it would be better if we can link directly to your source material so that others will find their way to your pages.

Regards,
Timothy Riley

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by Tim Riley (7 articles, 5 quicklinks, 7 diaries, 130 comments) on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 7:35:58 PM

Amanda is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has worked with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. A retired research ethnographer specializing in organization and technological innovation and strategic business development, she now resides in Georgia where she builds and restores wooden and fiberglass boats with her husband, Tom, a retired electrical engineer. Amanda grew up in the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the 9AA that runs along the Ohio in an area that gave the world Larry Flynt, the Clooneys, R...

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Amanda LangAmanda is a managing editor at OpEdNews and has worked with Rob Kall on the site since 2004. A retired research ethnographer specializing in organization and technological innovation and strategic business development, she now resides in Georgia where she builds and restores wooden and fiberglass boats with her husband, Tom, a retired electrical engineer. Amanda grew up in the Commonwealth of Kentucky on the 9AA that runs along the Ohio in an area that gave the world Larry Flynt, the Clooneys, R...

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Thank you

Please keep me and readers of OpEdNews posted. Excellent move. Many, many thanks again.

by Amanda Lang (22 articles, 13589 quicklinks, 431 diaries, 578 comments) on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 7:39:37 PM

BTW - Were I under DoJ prosecution? Mistrial!!!

...I would want to know if the WH/DoJ had communicated about my case. Any indictments and convictions delivered since Gonzales has been AG, should be immediately reviewed. This relevation places in question every case handled under Gonzales' oversight. Lady Justice has been raped.

by Amanda Lang (22 articles, 13589 quicklinks, 431 diaries, 578 comments) on Thursday, April 19, 2007 at 8:38:07 PM

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mike wygantblue collar worker/activist

GREAT

But it would've been nice to see T.V. coverage of this, but they were too busy with 24 frickin' hrs. of the VT killings. They couldn't break away, or are they using it to give Gonzo the cover. HOW CONVEEEENIENT!

by mike wygant (0 articles, 0 quicklinks, 0 diaries, 287 comments) on Friday, April 20, 2007 at 11:48:22 AM