U.S. Attorneys Forced Out by President Bush

I found a nice summary of the U.S. Attorneys who were recently ousted by President Bush's Justice Department.  Leave it to Joe Conason to lay it all out.  Some details from the article:

• Carol Lam, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, was forced to resign after sending former Representative Randy "Duke" Cunningham (R-CA) to prison.

• Paul Charlton, the U.S. Attorney in Arizona, was pushed out while investigating corruption charges against Representative Rick Renzi (R-AZ).

• H.E. (Bud) Cummins III, the U.S. Attorney in Arkansas, was replaced with a Karl Rove associate.

• David Iglesias, the U.S. Attorney in New Mexico, was forced out under pressure from Senator Pete Dominici (R-NM) and Representative Heather Wilson (R-NM), for failing to bring charges in a Democratic corruption case before the election.

As Joe Conason points out, U.S. Attorneys are supposed to be free from partisan meddling.  This was an ideological purge for the benefit of the Republican Party.  It doesn't do this country any good to choose U.S. Attorneys based on their willingness to cave to political pressure.

Senator Pete Dominici is, himself, now under a Senate ethics investigation for pressuring David Iglesias to bring indictments against Democrats in the run-up to the 2006 election.

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