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Watchdog Group Demands Missing Document in U.S. Attorney Probe
Yesterday, we told you about how the Justice Department failed to turn over an important document revealing that former U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton notified the Justice Department last fall when his office received a call from an Arizona Republican congressman under investigation.
People For the American Way president Ralph G. Neas is now calling for the Bush administration to make public all documents related to the contact between Rep. Rick Renzi’s office and Charlton’s office last fall.
Charlton was fired on Dec. 7, just weeks after the investigation of Renzi was made public and the phone call from his chief of staff was placed.
“Again and again this administration has refused to be candid with the American people,” Neas said. “We deserve all the facts about the US Attorney firing scandal, and we deserve them now. Congress has asked for all the documents relating to political interference with the fired attorneys. We need to know why nothing related to Rick Renzi has been released so far.”
The Justice Department has yet to return calls about the missing document.
Neas also called on Congress to investigate the possibility that Department of Justice officials held up the investigation of Renzi to help the Congressman win reelection in November.
According to a story published in the Wall Street Journal, “investigators pursuing the Renzi case had been seeking clearance from senior Justice Department officials on search warrants, subpoenas and other legal tools for a year before the election.”
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