Now there are eight, that we know of. John Conyers says Abu Gonzales and his evil minions are stalling, which probably means that they’ve been caught (again) with their hands in the till. From the NYT article that ran on Sunday:
On Saturday, Senator Charles E. Schumer, Democrat of New York, who has led a Congressional investigation into the dismissals and has been briefed on the evaluations, said the reports showed that new legislation was needed to keep the Justice Department from politically motivated firings.
“As we feared, the comprehensive evaluations show these U.S. attorneys did not deserve to be fired,” Mr. Schumer said. “To the contrary, they reveal they were effective, respected and set appropriate priorities.”
In response, a senior Justice Department official said the reviews, which focused on management practices within each United States attorney’s office, did not provide a broad or complete picture of the prosecutors’ performance.
The official, speaking on condition of anonymity because of the confidential nature of personnel information, said, “The reviews don’t take into account whether the U.S. attorneys carried out departmental priorities.”
When one of the departmental priorities is “Don’t prosecute Republicans or their campaign donors, because it might reveal pervasive corruption within the party,” it’s easy to see why these eight prosecutors have been fired.
