Attorney firings had genesis in White House (serving at the pleasure of the President)

MSNBC ^ | 3/13/2007 | Dan Eggen and John Solomon/WP

[Calpernia]

ping

[pabianice]

Strange... not a word of Clinton firing all 93 US Attorneys in 1993... /sarcasm

[pnh102]

Yet another non-scandal.

[Calpernia]

ping!

[msnimje]

OMG!! Does this mean, gasp...that hirings have their genesis in the White House also??

[TexasCajun]

Why is not one Republican elected offical calling a press conference to remind 'the journalist' that Slick fired EVERY ONE OF THE US Attorneys in 1993!

[Vaquero]

Bush should have fired Patrick Fitzgerald......


hey in a slightly different vein did you hear about the 2 gay irishmen???

Patrick Fitzgerald and Gerald Fitzpatrick......

[Calpernia]

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1518679/posts
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[Constitutionalist Conservative]

Lawmakers requested the documents as part of an investigation into whether the firings were politically motivated. While it is unclear whether the documents will answer Congress's questions, they show that the White House and other administration officials were more closely involved in the dismissals, and at a much earlier date, than they have previously acknowledged.

Of course, no mention of the fact that the Clinton administration actually did fire the whole lot shortly after WJC took office.

[tobyhill]

It's the media and Rats trying to create controversy where none exist because of their impotence with following through on their election Iraq promises and it's also why they're having hearing on the weirdo Plame and Wilson whatever.

[Calpernia]

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[P-40]

I guess I would be doing some firing if a U.S. Attorney was not energetically pursuing complaints of voter-fraud. That is supposed to be a serious crime.

[mewzilla]

Strange... not a word of Clinton firing all 93 US Attorneys in 1993... /sarcasm

Chris Wallace mentioned it at the end of his Sunday show on FNC.

But only because someone had e-mailed him with the info. Wallace said he hadn't mentioned it before because he hadn't known about it.

Sigh.

[tobyhill]

Of course it's political and that's why they serve at the pleasure of the President.

[Calpernia]

Emphasis!

The dismissals took place after President Bush told Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales that he had received complaints that some prosecutors had not energetically pursued voter-fraud investigations, according to White House spokeswoman Dana Perino.

[bert]

Back in '93, a perfectly good Republican US Attorney was sacked and replaced with an alcoholic Democrat party hack. His wife finally gave up on him as uncurable. He was good enought for Hillary however. He would lick her feet in an alcoholic stupor and never know he had been had.

[bert]

Back in '93, a perfectly good Republican US Attorney was sacked and replaced with an alcoholic Democrat party hack. His wife finally gave up on him as uncurable. He was good enought for Hillary however. He would lick her feet in an alcoholic stupor and never know he had been had.

[Williams]

This is a nothing story. How does thinking of firing all 92, two years ago, equate to firing 8 now? Hardly the same thing.

[Michael.SF.]

Yahoo-- Why did Bill Clinton order the firing of all 93 U.S. Attorneys?

For a good laugh and a look at the dark side, scroll down and read the "best answer" and then the writer's response to it.