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None of the Sunday show hosts posed our Weekend Watchdog questions drilling down to the heart of the Prosecutor Purge matter—how names actually got on the purge list. But guests Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., worked in answers that kept...

None of the Sunday show hosts posed our Weekend Watchdog questions drilling down to the heart of the Prosecutor Purge matter—how names actually got on the purge list. But guests Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., worked in answers that kept...

None of the Sunday shows hosts posed our Weekend Watchdog questions drilling down to the heart of the Prosecutor Purge matter -- how names actually got on the purge list. But guests Sens. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., and Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., worked in answers that kept the...

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked....

Video highlights of today's Senate hearing with Attorney General Gonzales is up at PoliticsTV and TPMmuckaker. Thorough liveblogging is up at Firedoglake and The Gun Toting Liberal. McJoan at DailyKos says Gonzales "decided that claiming incompetence is the way to...

As noted below, several Republican Senators have been not willing to provide political cover for Gonzales. And this afternoon, Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., called for Gonzales' resignation at the end of his questioning. Further, CNN White House reporter Suzanne Malveaux...

Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis., nailed Gonzales with a basic disconnect in his story, telling him, "You can't really say with certainty" that no one was purged for "improper reasons" if "you didn't know then, and you don't know today, how each of these people actually...

Asked what he would have done differently, Attorney General Gonzales said when delegating to Kyle Sampson the compilation of the prosecutor purge list, he would have told Sampson who exactly to consult with and what criteria he should use. A few minutes later, he...

I can't keep up with all of Alberto Gonzales' "I don't recall"s, in defiance of Sen. Chuck Schumer's attempt at prevention. But he just made a couple of big ones. Under questioning by Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., Gonzales said he doesn't recall the origins of the...

After Kyle Sampson's testimony, Talking Points Memo noted that Sampson was very murky about how prosecutor's names got onto the purge list. Today, Gonzales is generally characterizing the list as something he asked Sampson to compile and put before him. That still...