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...Normally the tenure process takes an academic year and that mine was exceedingly long was unusually stressful for me and my family,” Kaufman said, adding that he was informed of the decision last Friday evening by Sampson, who is on leave this spring...
...announced the decision in an e-mail to its graduate students on Tuesday, blaming interim University President Derek C. Bok for rejecting Kaufman. “Unfortunately [Bok] disagreed with the department’s recommendation and did not approve the appointment,” Department Chair Robert J. Sampson and acting Department Chair Mary C. Waters wrote...
...pages of e-mails and other documents shows that senior DoJ officials were deeply worried about their handling of the crisis. At one point, for example, staffers confronted the possibility that former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins might testify before Congress. "I don't think he should," Kyle Sampson, Gonzales' chief of staff, declared in a Feb. 1, 2007 e-mail to a fellow staffer. "How would he answer: Did you resign voluntarily? Who told you? What did they say?" Cummins was dumped as the U.S. attorney in Little Rock, Ark., and replaced by Tim Griffin, a former assistant...
...Sampson's exchange regarding Cummins could be important because of another e-mail, this one from DoJ spokesman Brian Roehrkasse. In a Feb. 7 message, Roehrkasse who was on a trip with Gonzales in South America at the time, wrote, "The Attorney General is extremely upset with the stories on the US Attys this morning" - stories that dealt with the Congressional testimony by Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, who was trying to explain why Cummins and others were dismissed. According to Roehrkasse's e-mail, "[Gonzales] also thought some of the DAG's statements were inaccurate." Roehrkasse has since said...
...spokesman later insisted there was no link between her dismissal and the public corruption investigations she was conducting at the time. The DoJ notes that the day after Sampson's emails, the FBI searched Foggo's house as well as his one-time CIA office. He was later indicted on fraud and money-laundering charges. "We have stated numerous times that no US attorney was removed to retaliate against or inappropriately interfere with any public corruption investigation or prosecution," according to a Justice Dept. statement. The suggestion is that she may not have been doing enough about prosecuting illegal immigration...