Congressional Oversight Roundup
U.S. Attorney Firings: Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is scheduled to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 17th. Among the issues Gonzales is expected to discuss are recently disclosed e-mails which show that the Attorney General attended a meeting of the recent firing of eight United States Attorneys and personally signed of on their termination. During a March 13 press conference, Gonzales said that he ''was not involved in any discussions about what was going on."
Civil Rights Division: The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether politics has influenced hiring and policy decisions in the Civil Rights Divison of the Department of Justice. According to testimony at that hearing, long serving career attorneys have been replaced by younger, conservative lawyers, while the number of civil rights cases brought by some sections have dropped by as much as 60% over the last six years.
General Services Administration: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating a briefing of 40 GSA employees, by a deputy to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, which focused on how the GSA could "help 'our candidates' in the next elections."
Partisan E-mail Server: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) issued letters today seeking to preserve e-mails sent by senior White House officials, including Rove, from e-mail addresses maintained on a partisan server--a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act. Blogger citizen92 argues that the practice of conducting White House business over non-government servers may threaten national security, because servers maintained by political parties are less secure against espionage than those maintained by the federal government.
Civil Rights Division: The House Judiciary Committee is investigating whether politics has influenced hiring and policy decisions in the Civil Rights Divison of the Department of Justice. According to testimony at that hearing, long serving career attorneys have been replaced by younger, conservative lawyers, while the number of civil rights cases brought by some sections have dropped by as much as 60% over the last six years.
General Services Administration: The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee is investigating a briefing of 40 GSA employees, by a deputy to White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove, which focused on how the GSA could "help 'our candidates' in the next elections."
Partisan E-mail Server: House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman Henry Waxman (D-CA) issued letters today seeking to preserve e-mails sent by senior White House officials, including Rove, from e-mail addresses maintained on a partisan server--a potential violation of the Presidential Records Act. Blogger citizen92 argues that the practice of conducting White House business over non-government servers may threaten national security, because servers maintained by political parties are less secure against espionage than those maintained by the federal government.
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