Former Clinton Chief of Staff calls KKKarl on his BS

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/03/08/podesta-rove/

Former Clinton Chief Of Staff Rebuts Rove Claim That Clinton Purged Prosecutors Too

At a speech in Little Rock today, Karl Rove described the Bush administration’s purge of federal prosecutors as “normal and ordinary,” claiming that Clinton did the same thing. “Clinton, when he came in, replaced all 93 U.S. attorneys,” Rove said. “When we came in, we ultimately replace most all 93 U.S. attorneys — there are some still left from the Clinton era in place.” Watch it:

Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta told ThinkProgress that Rove’s claim is “pure fiction.” The Clinton administration never fired federal prosecutors as political retribution:

Mr. Rove’s claims today that the Bush administration’s purge of qualified and capable U.S. attorneys is “normal and ordinary” is pure fiction. Replacing most U.S. attorneys when a new administration comes in — as we did in 1993 and the Bush administration did in 2001 — is not unusual. But the Clinton administration never fired federal prosecutors as pure political retribution. These U.S. attorneys received positive performance reviews from the Justice Department and were then given no reason for their firings.

We’re used to this White House distorting the facts to blame the Clinton administration for its failures. Apparently, it’s also willing to distort the facts and invoke the Clinton administration to try to justify its bad behavior.

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Nice try, KKKarl. You can't blame the Clenis forever.

[liberal N proud]

1. They should have been doing this 7 years ago!

Maybe we wouldn't have these monsters to deal with today if someone had stood up to them back then.

[BootinUp]

2. Clinton takes the BS from the right and the left

Whats new?