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September 30, 2008
Remember the fiasco with former AG, Alberto Gonzales, and his policies. Well a prosecutor has been appointed in the case. I think some of the firings actually affected the Arizona U.S. Attorney Offices, but I’m not 100%. Law.com has the article:
“Mukasey Appoints Special Prosecutor to Investigate U.S. Attorney Firings”
Joe Palazzolo, Legal Times
September 30, 2008
Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the firings of several U.S. Attorneys in 2006, as a report released Monday by Justice Department watchdogs found “significant evidence” that several of the attorneys fired in 2006 were let go for partisan or political reasons (pdf). The report recommended the appointment of a prosecutor with subpoena powers to continue the investigation.
Top department officials had said the firings were performance-related, but the report, by Justice Department Inspector General Glenn Fine and Office of Professional Responsibility Director H. Marshall Jarrett, found otherwise. It also describes the department’s top two officials at the time, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, as “remarkably unengaged” in the firing process and cites both for making “inconsistent, misleading and inaccurate” public statements about the firings.
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