A detailed chronology of events in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Dates that attorneys were sworn in under a presidential nomination and...
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were using the U.S. attorney positions for political advantage. The allegations were that some of the attorneys were targeted for dismissal to impede investigations...
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States Attorneys. Selected U.S. attorneys participate in the Attorney General's Advisory Committee of United States Attorneys. The Office of the United...
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See Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy documents for publicly released documents and hearings transcripts. The United States House Committee on the...
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Josh Marshall (section U.S. attorney controversy)
instrumental in exposing another national controversy — the politically motivated dismissal of U.S. attorneys by the Bush administration. Marshall won...
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Brett Tolman (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
major (if not well-known) figure in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Tolman received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Brigham Young...
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Jeffrey A. Taylor (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
came under heightened interest in March 2007 during the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. On March 20, 2007, President Bush declared in a press...
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Pete Domenici (category Mayors of Albuquerque, New Mexico)
one of the nine U.S. attorneys later fired by President Bush. The committee found "no substantial evidence" that Domenici tried to influence attorney David...
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Paula D. Silsby (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
Silsby's name was among those U.S. Attorneys who were considered for dismissal as part of the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Interview with Paula Silsby...
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Thomas B. Heffelfinger (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
with 19 other Republican-appointed former U.S. Attorneys, calling President Donald Trump "a threat to the rule of law in our country" and endorsing Joe Biden...
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(racehorse owner), see American Horse of the Year Jeffrey C. Sullivan, see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy timeline Jeffrey Sullivan (ice hockey), played...
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Scott Jennings (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
the president's agenda." Jennings was involved in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy in early 2007 testifying on August 2, 2007, before the...
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This is a timeline of events related to Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. It includes events described in investigations into...
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Rachel Paulose (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
interim U.S. Attorney for the District of Minnesota. The incumbent U. S. Attorney, Thomas Heffelfinger, had announced his resignation effective February...
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Thomas M. DiBiagio (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
under a clause of the PATRIOT Act (see Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy), DiBiagio stated in March 2007 that he was ousted because of political pressure...
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Debra Wong Yang (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
"The U.S. Attorney, the G.O.P. Congressman and the Timely Job Offer" The Hill: "Yang denies departure is linked to that of other U.S. attorneys" "The...
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Carol Lam (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
contracting corruption case. Lam was one of eight attorneys fired in the Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. Lam received her B.A. from Yale University...
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James Comey (category Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy)
and Administrative Law on the U.S. attorney dismissal controversy. His testimony contradicted that of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who had...
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Harriet Miers (redirect from Harriet Miers timeline)
together to seek the replacement of a limited number of U.S. Attorneys, saying that limiting the number of attorneys "targeted for removal and replacement"...
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During the 2007 Congressional investigation of the dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys, it was discovered that administration officials had been using a...
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former 120-day term limit of interim United States Attorneys appointed to fill vacated offices. This in effect gave the U.S. Attorney General greater appointing...
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Patrick Leahy (redirect from Patrick Leahy (Us Senator))
or Senatorial confirmation. This was an aspect of hearings in the dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy. In March 2007, both houses voted to overturn...
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Paul K. Charlton (redirect from Paul K. Charlton (attorney))
of the United States' 9,313 such cases in 2006, the tenth-highest in the country and up fourfold from 2002. Dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy Alberto...
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dismissal of U.S. attorneys controversy, as he was the Justice Department official who, on December 7, 2006, informed seven U.S. attorneys that they were...
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of Appeals, and the United States Supreme Court. McKay was one of eight U.S. attorneys fired by the Bush administration in 2006 which were, after the...
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districts share one attorney). Seven attorneys were dismissed on December 7, 2006. Subsequent disclosures showed that two additional attorneys, Bud Cummins and...
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of George W. Bush Presidency: 2001–2009 Timeline of the George W. Bush presidency (2001) Timeline of the George W. Bush presidency (2002) Timeline of...
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Paul McNulty (redirect from Paul McNulty (Attorney))
to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales. McNulty's resignation took effect July 26, 2007. In January 2007, shortly after a number of U.S. attorneys were...
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Mueller special counsel investigation (redirect from 2017 Special Counsel for the United States Department of Justice team)
director Mueller was chosen to lead due to a shortage of senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys. The dismissal of James Comey was a factor in the decision to use a...
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of the FBI's investigation of the Hillary Clinton email controversy and in 2017 for the FBI's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 U.S....
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