New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney Won’t Vacate Office Under Obama

[kpete]

A New Attorney Scandal? Bush-Appointed U.S. Attorney Won’t Vacate Office Under Obama»

Mary Beth Buchanan was appointed by President Bush to serve as U.S. attorney in Pittsburgh in Sept. 2001. Buchanan has held several significant posts within the Bush/Ashcroft/Gonzales Justice Department, most notably serving as director the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.

Just last month, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that Buchanan’s reign was expected to end. Indeed, when a new president is elected, U.S. attorneys of both parties generally submit their resignations to make way for the new appointees. But Buchanan has other plans:

Despite a new administration coming into power, U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan said she plans to stick around.

“It doesn’t serve justice for all the U.S. attorneys to submit their resignations all at one time,” she said yesterday. <…>

More than that, she said she would consider working in the Obama administration. She would not discuss what her future might hold beyond the U.S. attorney’s office.

“I am open to considering further service to the United States,” Ms. Buchanan said.

more at:
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/12/05/mary-beth-buchanan-...

[merh]

1. Why is this a scandal?

Cripes, the press is just dying for something to write about -

she thinks she can stay, the new CEO may ask her to leave. Big fucking deal.

[WeDidIt]

3. The scandal is she expects to keep her job

Elections have consequences, yet she expects to experience non consequences.

That's scandalous.

[blueclown]

2. "I'm gonna give you to the count of 10 to get your ugly, yellow, no-good keister off my property

before I pump your guts full of lead."

- Barack Obama

[AndyA]

5. Barack...left home alone?

[Whisp]

6. LOL!

[ellacott]

10. hahaha!!

[AtomTan]

4. Political appointees burrow into career civil service at every administration change. Not news.

[leftynyc]

7. Fire her ass

And toss all her shit on the lawn.

[Blue_Tires]

8. she needs to come to work and find her office relocated to the parking lot

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. Yeah, we're going to have to ask you to go ahead and move your office down to storage room B...

[Proud Liberal Dem]

11. The title is a bit misleading

She says she is open to working in the Obama administration and it's not like she can stay there if she's ultimately terminated/asked to resign. Is she planning on holing herself up in her office until the cops drag her out or something if she's asked to leave? Where's the scandal? The only thing I see in the article is that she is not planning on submitting her resignations as is the custom (but not the law AFAIK). She's not saying that she would refuse to leave if asked to do so.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

12. Exactly.

If she refuses to leave (highly unlikely) then there's the scandal...

[HiFructosePronSyrup]

13. Shoot.

I was hoping for tear gas and armored ATF vehicles.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. ROFL!

[EconomicLiberal]

15. Does anybody expect anything different?

These are entitled Rethugs. They think they deserve career government positions.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

16. Indeed!

The world is their oyster, or so they think...

[ddeclue]

17. AG Buchanan: You can stay but here's your new "office" as of January 20th: