[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 153 (2007), Part 7]
[House]
[Page 9375]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                    THE TRUTH FROM ATTORNEY GENERAL

  (Mr. EMANUEL asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute.)
  Mr. EMANUEL. Mr. Speaker, today we will once again hear from the 
Attorney General, Alberto Gonzales, on the prosecutor purge. When it 
comes to the U.S. Attorney firings in public corruption cases, we have 
heard plenty of different explanations from the Attorney General and 
his associates.
  What we have not heard is the simple truth. We know many of the fired 
U.S. Attorneys were pursuing public corruption cases. Contrary to the 
administration's earlier assertion, we know the decision to fire these 
prosecutors reached the highest levels of government in the 
administration and involved Members of Congress and Republican Party 
officials. So this administration either originally hired incompetent 
U.S. Attorneys in the first place, or hired competent attorneys but 
incompetently fired them.
  Which is it? Are the public corruption cases that implicate Members 
of their own party off limits in the Bush Justice Department? Is this 
blind justice? Democrats have been asking these questions for months 
and for months, and we have been consistently told other stories. Now 
the time for misdirection is over. Today we will demand and seek the 
truth.

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