Congress Summons Sampson to Testify

From chief legal affairs correspondent Chitra Ragavan:

The Senate Judiciary Committee has asked Kyle Sampson, former chief of staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, to "voluntarily appear" at a hearing next Thursday to discuss his role in the U.S. attorney firings, according to a letter released by Sampson's lawyer, Bradford Berenson.

But Berenson says he and his client need more time to go through the nearly 3,000 pages of documents that the Justice Department dumped on Congress early this week. Berenson says that if the White House agrees to provide additional documents, he and Sampson will have even more homework to do. Berenson also has a long-scheduled vacation planned with his family during the school spring break, he wrote in a letter to the committee chairman, Patrick Leahy, a Vermont Democrat, and the ranking minority member, Arlen Specter, a Pennsylvania Republican.

Berenson has asked whether the testimony can be postponed to the first week in April. See his letter here.

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