Federal Agencies Play Hot Potato over Wiretapping Probe

By Matthew Cardinale
January 25, 2006

... The flowchart of non-accountability–tracing letters to and from members of US Congress, the US Department of Justice, and the US Department of Defense–has been made available on U.S. Representative Zoe Lofgren’s website.

Most fascinatingly, in response to a letter from US Rep. Lofgren and 38 other members of Congress, the US Department of Justice (USDOJ) claims an investigation into Gonzales’s role would not fall within the agency’s purview. They claim it should be handled as a matter of the quality of Gonzales’s service as an attorney by the Office of Professional Responsibility.

Rep. Lofgren and other members of Congress disagree. The investigation should be focused on whether Gonzales did something illegal; it should not take the form of a performance review, they argue, according to a letter on Rep. Lofgren’s website.

"It looks like they’re playing hot potato!" one staffer for a member of US Congress told APN ...

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