The U.S. House Judiciary Committee has released thousands of pages of new documents today in its investigation of White House political manipulation of justice, including never before seen White House e-mail messages and the transcripts of two depositions with former Bush political aide Karl Rove.

We are going through the documents now and will have a full report later on, but for now, you can download and evaluate the documents at this link on the House Judiciary Committee Website.

At a glance, the documents seem to indicate Rove was involved in a conspiracy to manipulate hiring and firing at the Department of Justice.

Rep. John Conyers, chairman of the House Judiciary committee, says the newly released transcripts show that former Bush senior adviser Karl Rove was the “driving force” behind several of the firings of U.S. attorneys.

“After all the delay and despite all the obfuscation, lies, and spin, this basic truth can no longer be denied: Karl Rove and his cohorts at the Bush White House were the driving force behind several of these firings, which were done for improper reasons,” Conyers said in a statement.

The 6,000-plus documents show that Rove “played a critical role in the firing of the U.S. attorney in New Mexico following the 2006 elections.”

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