Alberto Gonzales, during questioning by Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) said that heâd never intended to install Tim Griffin as U.S. Attorney for Little Rock using the Patriot Act provision — a plan that Kyle Sampson had advocated. Doing that was a âdumb idea,â Gonzales said. And he says that when Sen. Mark Pryor (D-AR) told him that he would not support Griffinâs nomination in December, he offered to have Pryor suggest replacements. Thatâll be news to Pryor, whoâs said that Gonzales appeared to be following Kyle Sampsonâs plan to string him along, to run out the clock, when they spoke. Pryor has said publicly, repeatedly, that Gonzales lied to him.
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