Anger mounts over handling of US attorney firings

[deminks]

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/10/politics/us-attorneys-resignation/index.html

Washington (CNN)Attorney General Jeff Sessions has asked for the resignations of 46 US attorneys, igniting anger from officials who say they were given no warning about their dismissals.

The Justice Department announced the firings Friday afternoon, and many prosecutors had not been formally notified or even told before they were fired, according to a law enforcement source. Acting Deputy Attorney General Dana Boente was in the beginning stages of calling each US attorney individually to tell them they had to resign when the DOJ issued a statement.

A law enforcement source charged that "this could not have been handled any worse" because there was little warning. Many prosecutors found out through media reports that they had to resign today.

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A list of the US attorneys asked to resign was not immediately available. But one of them is the high-profile US attorney in Manhattan, Preet Bharara, according to a Justice Department official. Bharara met with President Donald Trump at Trump Tower after the November election and told reporters that Trump had asked him to stay on, and that he agreed to do so.

Ranking Democrat on the Senate Judiciary Committee Dianne Feinstein said she was "surprised" and "concerned" by the news of the firings, saying the actions contradict what she was told by the Vice President and other administration officials.

"In January, I met with Vice President Pence and White House Counsel Donald McGahn and asked specifically whether all U.S. attorneys would be fired at once," the California senator said in a statement. "Mr. McGahn told me that the transition would be done in an orderly fashion to preserve continuity. Clearly this is not the case."

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[elleng]

1. "this could not have been handled any worse" because there was little warning.

Many prosecutors found out through media reports that they had to resign today.' Similar to STATE Department/Embassies, right?

These clowns have NO IDEA how to do business of ANY kind.

[KewlKat]

3. they don't care....about anything or anybody but themselves.....it's about power, it's about money

it's about time we walk them all to jail!

[bullimiami]

2. More obstruction of justice. They just keep digging in further.

[Cracklin Charlie]

4. Didn't Gonzalez get popped for this sort of thing?