Acting Connecticut U.S. Attorney Nora R. Dannehy will question former Bush White House senior aide Karl Rove tomorrow as part of an investigation into the firing of nine Bush-era U.S. Attorneys, The Washington Post reported this afternoon.
Dannehy had been quietly obtaining documents on the firings since she was named to the investigation last year by then-Attorney General Michael Mukasey, but now she is interviewing former Bush aides, including former White House political director Sara Taylor and deputy director of political affairs Scott Jennings, The Post said.
In addition, the Post reported she has been in contact with advisers to former-Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), who improperly called then-New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias, urging him to quickly push through Democratic corruption cases in New Mexico. A month after Iglesias refused the request, he was purged by the Bush administration.
The House Judiciary Committee also plans to interview Rove and former Bush aide Harriet E. Miers on the firings. The committee will hold a closed-door hearing with the two former advisers sometime in June, the Post said.
