Cenk Uygur: But Why Were They Fired?

[babylonsister]

http://www.smirkingchimp.com/thread/6349

But Why Were They Fired?
by Cenk Uygur | Mar 26 2007

The Bush administration keeps saying over and over that the US attorneys serve at the pleasure of the president and that they could be fired for any reason. That's not really true. Firing them to impede an investigation is illegal. And constitutionally they cannot be fired for certain impermissible reasons (for example, he couldn't fire them based on their race).

Hence, in order to determine if the firings were legal and constitutional, we have to know why they were fired. So far, other than to say the firings were proper, the administration has not given any reason.

This is a bit incredible. Several weeks into this scandal, they have not given one decent explanation of why they decided to terminate these eight prosecutors. In the beginning, they said it was because of poor job performance. Then they backpedaled from that when that flimsy and untrue explanation got them in a lot of trouble. And since then, they have only cited "unspecified performance issues."

Well, they need to specify.

Alberto Gonzales was on a radio show in Seattle and they asked him four different times why the US attorney from Washington, John McKay was fired - and four times Gonzales dodged the question. Listen to his answers here.
http://www.theyoungturks.com/story/2007/3/26/95847/3620

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[soothsayer]

1. to get rover's boyfriend in AR, for one. didn't they admit that?

no? huh. go figure.

[C_U_L8R]

2. And why were others kept on ??

What corrupt USAs are among us ?????
What did they do (or not do) to stay in rightwing good favor?

[valerief]

3. They stopped pleasuring Bush. nt