02-28-2007, 01:47 PM
In an unusual and almost unprecedented move, the Justice Department is replacing competent US Attorneys (who they originally appointed) with politcally subservient hacks.
"Two months after the firings first began to make waves on Capitol Hill, it has also become clear that most of the prosecutors were overseeing significant public-corruption investigations at the time they were asked to leave. Four of the probes target Republican politicians or their supporters, prosecutors and other officials said"
http://tinyurl.com/ywp7lz
"But the Feb. 20 ruling vacating the sentence and the possibility of Trenkler receiving a lighter sentence prompted US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan to issue a public apology yesterday."
http://tinyurl.com/2cgcuw
"Two months after the firings first began to make waves on Capitol Hill, it has also become clear that most of the prosecutors were overseeing significant public-corruption investigations at the time they were asked to leave. Four of the probes target Republican politicians or their supporters, prosecutors and other officials said"
http://tinyurl.com/ywp7lz
"But the Feb. 20 ruling vacating the sentence and the possibility of Trenkler receiving a lighter sentence prompted US Attorney Michael J. Sullivan to issue a public apology yesterday."
http://tinyurl.com/2cgcuw