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Article: CHAIRMAN CONYERS CALLS ON WHITE HOUSE, JUSTICE DEPARTMENT TO PROVIDE ANSWERS ABOUT FIRING OF U.S. ATTORNEYS

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March 13, 2007
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The House Judiciary Committee issued the following statement:

Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) gave the following statement and released documents at a press conference today addressing the White House involvement in the firing of U.S. Attorneys.

[Documents are here: Part I, Part II, Part III, and Part IV]

The latest round of disclosures from the Department of Justice raise new and troubling questions about the firing of six United States Attorneys.

We have just received documents from the Justice Department in the last hour and are in the process of reviewing them. At a minimum, we believe these documents show a coordinated effort, initiated by the White House, to purge every United ...

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