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Firing U.S. Attorneys

The following editorial from Adam Cohen of the N.Y. Times is very apropos:The Bush administration has done a terrible job of explaining its decision to fire eight United States attorneys. Story after story has proved to be untrue: that the prosecutors who were fired were poor performers; that the White House was not involved in the purge. But the administration has been strangely successful in pushing its message that the scandal is at worst a political misdeed, not a criminal matter.http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/19/opinion/19mon4.htmlSeriously, if our politicians are lying about this, criminal charges may be appropriate. I'm not saying that anybody deserves to go to prison or anything, but there should be some ramifications. Clinton got disbarred for his attempted artful deception about his affair with a young intern that was unrelated to his actual performance in office, if the GOP has liars impugning the credibility of their own faithful republicans who fail to follow the party line, something has got to give...continue to full post

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