A top US justice department official who refused to testify before Congress about her role in the sacking of eight federal prosecutors has resigned.
Monica Goodling, who was senior counsel to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, gave no reason for her abrupt decision.
Last month she rejected an interview request from a congressional committee investigating the sackings, invoking her right not to incriminate herself.
Mr Gonzales denies the sackings last year were politically motivated.
The Democratic Party, which now controls Congress, is pushing to expand an investigation into the firings, which affected almost one in 10 federal prosecutors.
Mr Gonzales - who heads the justice department - says the attorneys were fired because of their job performance and that politics played no role.
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