Andrew Zajac
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales seems to have weathered congressional inquiries into the Justice Department’s firing of U.S. attorneys, but it still looks like a rough summer for his department. And we’re not talking about the heat and humidity.
In a perverse twist on the notion of a confidential informant, the House Judiciary Committee late yesterday announced the launch of a web site site to collect info from DOJ whistleblowers about allegations of politicized department operations.
Also, later today, the House panel’s Civil and Administrative Law subcommittee is slated to grill outgoing Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty about the department’s clumsy damage control efforts once the scale and murky circumstances of the prosecutors’ firings became evident earlier this year.
Here’s the web site announcement:
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Chairman Conyers Launches “Write Congress to Right Justice” Website for Current and Former DoJ Employees to Share Information with the House Judiciary Committee Investigators (Washington) – Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers, Jr. (D-MI) today announced the launch of a new web page, http://judiciary.house.gov/WriteCongressToRightJustice.aspx, to respond to the growing number of current and former Justice Department career lawyers and other employees raising concerns about politicization in the Department. This page provides a secure method for DOJ employees to communicate what they know to Committee investigators. The Committee will protect the confidentiality of those who come forward.
“We have heard through intermediaries that current and former Justice Department whistleblowers needed a means to securely and confidentially communicate with the Committee,” Conyers said.
“This page is designed to allows those whistleblowers to get the truth about the Department to the American people.” ##110-JUD-061407## |
