White House Mulled Firing All Prosecutors (AP)

[Eugene]

White House Mulled Firing All Prosecutors

By LARA JAKES JORDAN
The Associated Press
Tuesday, March 13, 2007; 4:19 AM

WASHINGTON -- The White House considered firing all 93 federal
prosecutors at the start of President Bush's second term, but
yielded to Justice Department objections and eventually agreed
to a smaller list of dismissals compiled by Justice officials,
a spokeswoman said Monday.

Dana Perino also said President Bush may have informally passed
on to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales complaints the White
House was receiving about the performance of some of the U.S.
attorneys.

She said then-White House counsel Harriet Miers raised the idea
with Gonzales aid Kyle Sampson of asking all 93 U.S. attorneys to
resign in 2004, wondering whether the start of a new White House
term marked a logical time to start with a new slate of U.S.
attorneys, who serve four-year terms at the pleasure of the
president.

Sampson disagreed, saying a wholesale firing would be disruptive.
Perino said deputy chief of staff Karl Rove, the president's top
political adviser, vaguely recalls telling Miers that he thought
firing all 93 was ill-advised.

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Full article: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/13/AR2007031300140.html

[Eurobabe]

1. Can we impeach these assholes YET??

nothing like making a mockery of the US Judicial system with their "political" appointees. Good God. :wtf:

[fasttense]

4. No, it seems we have to wait until they kill America before we can Impeach them.

Seems a preemptive Impeachment of everyone in the white house would save America from a depression/recession, bankruptcy, war and further scandal. Unlike the sociopaths in the white house, we as a nation follow laws, well sometimes. Does it take a sociopath to take catch another sociopath?

[rodeodance]

2. ah, nice little gentle in-love with Bush Harriet????

[liberal renegade]

3. I think they've got

that backwards, it should've read America mulls over firing the Blighthouse.....

[luckyleftyme2]

5. corruption

seems corruption abounds in this administration,surely we deserve better!

[Ian David]

6. The Pearl Harbor Day Massacre goes ALL way to Bush,

And I can't remember how many times I have said this, about HOW many different things they've done...

But, at long last, shouldn't THIS be enough to IMPEACH him?

[BlueManDude]

7. Classic spin -"hey we were gonna fire all of 'em" - yeah right.

No surprise the WaPo is helping them try to minimize this scandal.

[tanyev]

8. I can understand why a new president would want to clear the decks

when they first come in to office. I don't get why they would want to do it again at the start of a second term, clearing out 93 people that they hired only 4 years previously. Other than wanting to use those posts for political rewards and retributions, of course.

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

9. I suspect...

...that it has a lot to do with the revisions the Patriot Act made to the law about appointing interim federal prosecutors. Interim federal prosecutors can now serve indefinitely (used to be a 120 day maximum, as I recall) and do not need to be confirmed by the Senate. Thus, Bush could appoint whoever he wanted, without interference from the Senate.

[tanyev]

10. Oh, yes. I'm sure you're right

I should have said I can't think of any legitimate reason why a president would want to replace his entire US Attorney team at the start of his 2nd term.

[goodhue]

11. Harriet Miers clearly is clueless