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New details show the Bush administration's "document dump" gives a misleading rationale for the firing of two U.S. attorneys.
By Mark Follman
March 19, 2007
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Republicans now insist that a President has the absolute right to fire U.S. attorneys for any reason, but that is the opposite of what they said in 1993.
By Glenn Greenwald
March 19, 2007
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Carol Lam tells Justice that she plans to seek search warrants for a top CIA official. The next day, Gonzales' chief of staff says she has to go.
By Tim Grieve
March 19, 2007
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Once again, Republicans are using the Clinton dodge -- he did it too! -- to justify the Bush administration's unjustified firing of eight U.S. attorneys.
By Joe Conason
March 16, 2007
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The White House political director was clearly at the center of the partisan plot to fire U.S. attorneys, despite the administration's clumsy attempts to pretend otherwise.
By Sidney Blumenthal
March 15, 2007
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Questions continue swirling as to the "real problem" Bush officials may have had with fired U.S. attorney Carol Lam.
By Mark Follman
March 14, 2007
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The U.S. attorney general's willingness to serve as the president's ultimate yes man makes him unqualified for the office.
By Joe Conason
March 12, 2007
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Like Watergate, the unfolding U.S. attorneys scandal proves that it's dangerous for the nation's chief law enforcement officer to be an appointed crony of the president.
By Garrett Epps
March 9, 2007
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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.
By Mark Follman
February 28, 2007