To think Tony Snow used to have more integrity when he was at Fox News...he's got to be in the negative now.

YOU try to manage, wrangle, and present all of the lies produced on a daily basis by various factions of the Bush Administration. I still prefer Snow to that ferret-faced weasel, Scott McClellan.

No one shall ever be better at this particular job than the great, glib Ari Fleischer, though.

"If you want the truth, we're going to make the truth possible."

Uh huh.

Tony Snow is such a worm. How can he possibly sleep at night?

Political appointments serve at the will of the President. They can be fired for any or no reason whatsoever. U.S. attorneys fall into this category.

President Bush isn't the first person to fire U.S. attorneys. Bill Clinton did it, too.

Attorney General Janet Reno today [March 24, 1993] demanded the prompt resignation of all United States Attorneys, leading the Federal prosecutor in the District of Columbia to suggest that the order could be tied to his long-running investigation of Representative Dan Rostenkowski, a crucial ally of President Clinton.

Minus the speculation above, the facts remain. There was no wrongdoing.

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That may be, but it's the coverup, not the crime. A lot of interesting (corrupt, illegal) stuff is coming up about the Justice Department.

The amusing bit is that this is the LEAST scandalous scandal of this administration. Abu Graib, lying to Congress in the State of the Union, billions in cash missing, Katrina...

The act is not a scandal, its the cover-up that is the scandal QM. Janet Reno's proposal was released to the media. While this was a silent removal. Furthermore The procedure for appointment of Interim U.S. Attorneys is governed by Section 546 of title 28, United States Code. Section (c) states:

(c) A person appointed as United States attorney under this section may serve until the earlier of (1) the qualification of a United States attorney for such district appointed by the President under section 541 of this title; or (2) the expiration of 120 days after appointment by the Attorney General under this section.

However, on March 9, 2006, President George W. Bush signed into law the Patriot Act Reauthorization Bill of 2005[3] which amends Section 546 by striking subsections (c) and (d) and inserting the following new subsection:

(c) A person appointed as United States attorney under this section may serve until the qualification of a united States Attorney for such district appointed by the President under section 541 of this title.

This, in effect, strikes the 120 days limit on interim U.S. Attorneys, and effectively extends their term to the end of the appointing President's term, which circumvents the U.S. Senate confirmation process.

The United States Senate is currently investigating this revision to the U.S. Patriot Act.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Attorney

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