European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 18, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sunday March stars and stripes Page 17 in the states Gonzales gop support weakens by Julie Hirschfeld Davis the associated press Washington the White House on Friday backed off its earlier Contention that the White House counsel Harriet Miers first raised the idea of fir ing us attorneys an act that led to a firestorm of criticism of attorney general Alberto Gonza Les it has been described As her idea but i dont want to try to vouch for origination said White House press Secretary Tony Snow who previously had asserted Miers was the person who came up with the idea at this juncture people have hazy memo Ries snows comments came As emails surfaced thursday night pulling the White House further into the intensifying probe Over the firings of eight Federal prosecutors the emails raised new questions about top political adviser Karl roves role in the dismiss als and came amid eroding gop support for Gonzales that put his Job at risk Snow said it was not immediately Clear who first floated the More dramatic idea of firing All 93 us attorneys shortly after president Bush was reelected to a second term asked if Bush himself might have suggested the firings Snow said anythings possible but i dont think so he said Bush certainly has no recollection of any such thing i cant speak for the attorney general Bush top Legal aides were to Tell congressional democrats on Friday whether and under what conditions they would allow High level White House officials including Rove to testify under oath in the inquiry into the fir Ings subpoenas could come As Early As this week the Story keeps changing which neither does them or the Public any Good sen Chuck Schumer a Democrat said Fri Day Plame says her identity treated recklessly by Matt Apuzzo the associated press Washington Valerie Plame the Cia operative at the heart of a political scandal told Congress on Friday that senior officials at the White House and state department care Lessly and recklessly blew her cover to Dis credit her diploma husband Plame whose 2003 Outing triggered a Feder Al investigation said she always knew her identity could be discovered by foreign governments it was a terrible irony that administration officials were the ones who destroyed my cover she told the House oversight and government Reform committee if our government cannot even protect my identity future foreign agents who might con Sider working with the Central intelligence Agency and providing needed intelligence would think twice Plame said in response to a question the hearing was the first time Plame has publicly answered questions about the Case which led to the recent perjury and obstruction of Justice conviction of vice president Dick Cheney former top aide i Lewis Scooter Libby no one has been charged with leaking her identity its not our Job to determine criminal culpability but it is out Job to determine what went wrong and insist on accountability committee chairman Henry Waxman Calif said at the outset of the hearing my name and identity were carelessly and recklessly abused by senior officials in the White House and state department Plame testified i could no longer perform the work for which i had been highly trained Plame said she had no role in sending her husband on a Cia fac finding trip to niger Wilson said in a newspaper column that his trip debunked the administrations prewar intelligence that Iraq was seeking to buy uranium from Africa draw Down proposal lit s Wall the associated press Washington democrats suffered a defeat in the Senate on thursday for a Les sweeping plan to end us participation in the War in the Senate after weeks of skirmishing republicans easily turned Back democratic Legisla Tion that would have required a troop withdrawal to begin within 120 Days the measure set no fixed deadline for completion of the redeployment but set a goal of March 31 2008 the vote 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