U.S. Attorneys

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  • 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.
  • Republicans and U.S. attorneys -- then and now

    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.
  • The "real problem" with one fired U.S. attorney?

    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.
  • Blame Bill

    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.
  • All roads lead to Rove

    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.
  • Was a U.S. attorney sacked for fighting GOP corruption?

    Questions continue swirling as to the "real problem" Bush officials may have had with fired U.S. attorney Carol Lam.
  • Alberto Gonzales must go

    The U.S. attorney general's willingness to serve as the president's ultimate yes man makes him unqualified for the office.
  • Why we should make attorney general an elective office

    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.
  • 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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