The Smell Of Perjury and Cover-up Is In The Air, In True Watergate Style

May 3 (LPAC)--As former Deputy Attorney General (until mid-2005) James Comey testified on May 3 at a House Judiciary subcommittee hearing. Comey dramatically contradicted the evaluations given, by Gonzales's chief of staff Kyle Sampson, of the U.S. Attorneys who were fired. Although he was the number two in the DOJ and the direct supervisor of all U.S. Attorneys, Comey said, he never saw Sampson's target-list of U.S. Attorneys to be removed, and he was not even aware of any such process at the time. Comey said that his experience with the U.S. Attorneys who were fired was "very positive;" he explicitly disagreed with the Sampson list's assessments of Carol Lam (San Diego), Dennis Bogdan (Nevada) and David Iglesias (New Mexico), as "weak performers" and "ineffectual managers." Thus, although Gonzales testified that the list of U.S. Attorneys to be fired was a consensus of top DOJ officials, Deputy Attorneys General Comey and McNulty, Associate Dep. AG Moschella, and Gonzales chief of staff Sampson have all denied giving any recommendations of who was to be fired.