[Texgreen] Fwd: Justice gets a pink slip

[Craig MIller]

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---- Public Citizen (publiccitizen@mail.democracyinaction.org) wrote ----

March 5, 2007

Last December, the Justice Department fired eight U.S. Attorneys for no good
reason.  The purge threw a monkey wrench into several ongoing investigations of
political corruption. One large-scale probe was uncovering a scandal-ridden
trail leading from the CIA to the Congress and possibly the White House.  Were
these prosecutors getting too close for comfort for this Administration?  

Bush's Justice Department was using a little-known part of the so-called
"Patriot Act" reauthorization passed by the 109th Congress. The law allows the
President to replace the fired prosecutors indefinitely with stand-in partisan
cronies who are less likely to investigate wrongdoers in the Bush
Administration.  

Thankfully, many of the fired prosecutors have spoken out and Congress is
responding.  Hearings are being scheduled in the Judiciary Committees in the
House and Senate.  Also, legislation has been introduced that would put an end
to this dangerous partisan cudgel by restoring previous limitations on the
ability of the President to appoint U.S. Attorneys indefinitely.

U.S. Attorneys committed to cleaning up politics should be honored, not
summarily fired.  The mass firings send a chilling message to all who are
working to expose government corruption.  Let's stop this dangerous misuse of
presidential power and restore our system of checks and balances so we can clean
up Washington, instead of making it worse.

TAKE ACTION now!: http://action.citizen.org/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=6903 

Sincerely,

Angela Canterbury

Field Director
Public Citizen's Congress Watch


  


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