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Thursday, June 21, 2007
“Fire The Liar”
Even before Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty got the chance today to describe his role in last year’s firing of nine U.S. attorneys, protesters dressed in pink took over the House Judiciary Committee room.
The protesters, wearing signs with “Fire the Liar” emblazoned across their backs, demanded that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales be removed from office for not telling Congress the truth about why the prosecutors were fired.
One woman, dressed in an orange jump suit like the detainees at Guatanamo, asked if there were “any lawyers in the room” to preserve their right to protest Gonzales.
Numbering fewer than a dozen, the protesters didn’t get very far. Police officers carted them away.
Gonzales has asserted in testimony before Congress that he mishandled the dismissals, but has done nothing improper in firing the prosecutors.
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