Justice Dept. Attorney Defends Firings

[sabra]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/06/AR2007020600732.html

Justice Dept. Attorney Defends Firings

The Justice Department removed a prosecutor in Arkansas without cause in order to make room for a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove aide, a senior Justice official conceded in testimony today.

But Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty told senators that the new interim prosecutor in Little Rock, J. Timothy Griffin, has more experience as a prosecutor than the U.S. attorney he replaced.

McNulty also defended the recent firings of six other U.S. attorneys in the West and Southwest for unspecified "performance-related" problems, and said the Justice Department would strongly oppose Democratic legislation to limit the attorney general's power to name replacements.

"The attorney general's appointment authority has not, and will not, be used to circumvent the confirmation process in the Senate," McNulty said.

[baldguy]

1. Necrocons consolidating their power in the Judiciary.

[WHEN CRABS ROAR]

2. I agree

[wakeme2008]

3. ya right,,, this is about Whitewater and the Rose Law firm and Hillary

There is only ONE reason Rove would want HIS man in Ark and that is to get Hillary.

[MidwestTransplant]

4. Does he have any connection to AK?