Democrats Spy Ethics Opening

Party Revives Broad Charges

• By John Stanton and Rachel Van Dongen
• Roll Call Staff
• March 8, 2007, Midnight

Senate Democrats are looking to tie the recent guilty verdict in the Scooter Libby CIA leak trial with the Bush administration’s controversial decision to sack a number of U.S. attorneys late last year as part of a broader national attack on what they call a chronic abuse of the justice system for political gain, aides said this week.