calls GOP-----wonder if he called any Dems???
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/09/AR2007030902029.htmlGonzales Tries to Mollify GOP Critics on Firings, FBI Missteps
By Paul Kane and Michael Abramowitz
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, March 10, 2007; Page A05
Under fire from lawmakers on Capitol Hill, Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales scrambled to shore up support late this week, reassuring key Senate Republicans that he would address concerns about the firings of eight U.S. attorneys and the FBI's admission that it violated procedures in the use of its anti-terrorism authority.
Lawmakers and their aides said the attorney general called at least four members of the Senate Republican leadership in advance of a Washington Post report on the botched handling of "national security letters," used to obtain e-mails, telephone and financial records of private citizens between 2003 and 2005.
Talking with reporters yesterday, Sen. Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) rebuffed the suggestion that the report would cause GOP senators to lose confidence in Gonzales, but made clear that he is taking the issue very seriously.
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Kyl said Gonzales "expressed his great disappointment" about the handling of the secret program in their conversation and echoed those thoughts in talks with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (Ky.) and Minority Whip Trent Lott (Miss.). Gonzales also called Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), one of the most stalwart administration allies in Congress.
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