Obama Should Clean House at Justice-by Dan Abrams

[kpete]

Obama Should Clean House at Justice

by Dan Abrams

Bush took firing U.S. Attorneys to a whole new level so it would be poetic justice if President Obama purged the DoJ.

It should be one of the earliest and easiest decisions for President Obama. But don't count on it.

Next week, the new president should immediately ask all 93 U.S. attorneys, the top federal prosecutors in the country, to resign. If they refuse, fire them. Many of those prosecutors will have been honest, hardworking, apolitical public servants. And yet they should still get the boot.

What? Isn't that to repeat the partisan sins of Karl Rove and Alberto Gonzalez improperly seeking to stack the legal decks by firing U.S. Attorneys whose politics they don't appreciate? Isn't it precisely the sort of politicization of the Justice Department that people like me decried for months? Nope. It's the remedy.

Just because the Justice Department became "Bush League," doesn’t mean Obama has to start out in the legal minors.

After eight years of making obscenity and adult pornography the Justice department priority at the expense of pursuing hardened criminals, it's time to redirect and thoroughly disinfect the tattered department. Attorney General nominee Eric Holder had this to say about the DoJ a year ago: "There is a crisis of confidence that the nation has with regard to the department." Okay, so why not start anew when he takes charge?

more at:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-01-16/obama-should-clean-house-at-justice/

[malaise]

1. I agree with Dan

100%

[DU9598]

2. Ditto

Fire them all. They can re-apply and prove their qualifications against other applicants. We can do better across the board.

[DCKit]

3. Start with everyone who got their degree at Liberty U...

They probably weren't qualified (certainly less qualified) in the first place. It's a no-brainer.

[BonnieJW]

8. You're thinking of Regent University.

Pat Robertson's fake university. That's where brilliant Monica Goodling got her "degree."

[DCKit]

9. Thanks Bonnie. I can take constructive criticism/edumacation. n/t

[ThomWV]

4. I believe it is customary for all the sitting US Attorneys to resign now anyway

They hand in their resignations at the end of their patron's terms. The resignations are then accepted as their replacements are named and moved into position. I believe its always been that way. Some, but few, might be asked to stay.

[Johonny]

5. I wish he still had a show on MSNBC

Do we really need back to back to back repeats of the same three shows all night?

[annabanana]

7. Yup!. . Keep him on the legal beat, on his own show...

(doesn't even need to be a whole hour - could be a "1/2 hour of Law & Order" every night.) There is sure to be material available in the coming years...

[StreetKnowledge]

6. Agreed Fully.

The Bush-era DoJ has become a joke.

[Solly Mack]

10. Root'em all out