Bud Cummins

  • Bud Cummins on Gonzales' departure: "I felt relieved"

    The man whose firing helped touch off the U.S. attorneys scandal recalls John Ashcroft warmly and sees better days ahead for the DOJ.
  • Cummins: "My professional reputation has already been slandered"

    In an interview with Salon, former U.S. Attorney Bud Cummins says Sara Taylor's testimony about him is "almost true" and responds to her apology to him.
  • The U.S. attorneys scandal gets dirty

    As Congress prepares to grill Alberto Gonzales, Salon has uncovered another partisan issue connected to the mass firings: Pornography.
  • How Bush's Justice Department has "blown it"

    It's still unclear why I and my fellow U.S. attorneys were fired. But by failing to tell the truth, Bush officials have damaged our justice system.
  • Manipulating Justice to win elections

    More details on how the Bush administration used the Justice Department as a partisan tool.
  • How U.S. attorneys were used to spread voter-fraud fears

    Long before it fired eight U.S. attorneys for political reasons, the Bush administration had politicized their jobs by making them push a favorite GOP talking point.
  • Smearing the U.S. attorneys

    New details show the Bush administration's "document dump" gives a misleading rationale for the firing of two U.S. attorneys.
  • Inside Bush's prosecutor purge

    Why has the administration fired U.S. attorneys with sterling track records? To make room for its political loyalists, critics say, and exert its last shred of control.

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