Did you know that when Clinton took office, he fired every lawyer in the justice department and replaced them with his own corrupt scum? This was completely unprecedented. (The scumbag "mainstream" socialist Democrat newsrooms, of course, made little of it. Imagine if that was a Republican President who did that, LMAO!)
I think that Bush wanted to "set a new tone of bipartisanship", etc., and left most of the corrupt Clinton scum right where they were in both Justice and State.
I remember a couple of months after Bush took office there was some kind of routine, "get acquainted" State Department meeting and who walks in and sits down but Jamie Gorelick. According to the story, everybody clammed up and whispered to each other, "What is she doing here?" Well, it turned out that she was still employed by the State Department - - Bush and Company had left her there. (Although she did leave soon after.)
He did not fire "every lawyer in the Justice Department." He fired all of the federal district attorneys who had been appointed by President Bush. That is NOT "all the lawyers in the Justice Department."
we have to start playing hardball and face reality - the party in power has to be able to use the DOJ (legally) to pursue those that politically oppose them, and who would use their position in government (illegally) to continue the political fight, even when they lose at the ballot box.
in the meantime, the Dem moles inside DOJ went after Curt Weldon, and even went after Jeanine Pirro. which Dems are "our guys" going after?
Furthermore, Jamie Gorelick was only left in place until her replacement could be sworn in. If you will remember, the Senate was very slow to do the confirmations, which was NOT the fault of the President.