Sunday, Apr 15, 2007 11:00 PDT
Read the prepared remarks of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, to be delivered when he faces the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday.
On Tuesday, embattled Attorney General
Alberto Gonzales will testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Below are the prepared remarks he plans to give. Because this is a general oversight hearing, Gonzales' remarks touch on several issues, including the use of controversial
national security letters, enforcement of the nation's drug laws and Department of Justice efforts in the area of intellectual property. But the prepared remarks have been dominated by discussion of the scandal surrounding the firing of eight
U.S. attorneys, as much of Gonzales' testimony Tuesday is likely to be as well. Presented here are the first two pages of Gonzales' testimony, in which he lays out his case on the firings. A PDF of the full prepared testimony is available for download
here.
