How does Mr. Gonzales reconcile his assertion, in a USA Today op-ed on March 7, that the prosecutors were fired "for reasons related to policy, priorities and management -- what have been referred to broadly as 'performance-related' reasons" with the reported testimony by Michael A. Battle, who headed the office overseeing U.S. attorneys, that he was "not aware of performance problems with respect to several" of the prosecutors until just days before he called to seek their resignations?How and why was New Mexico U.S. Attorney David C. Iglesias's name added to the hit list at the last minute? What was the nature of the attorney general's conversations on this topic with Sen. Pete Domenici (R-N.M.), White House aide Karl Rove and President Bush? Did Mr. Gonzales, as the Albuquerque Journal reported Sunday, tell Mr. Domenici that he would fire Mr. Iglesias only on the orders of the president?
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