It is now well established that, in the opening days of President Bush's second term, Senior Presidential Advisor Karl Rove raised the idea with officials in the White House Counsel's office of replacing some or all U.S. Attorneys. At this point, however, it is not known why Mr. Rove was interested in this issue, although he was at that time under investigation by a sitting U.S. Attorney and had testified twice before a federal grand jury in the matter.
This is one of the nice bits of the report that (as I said before) allays some of my doubts about the Rove subpoena.. It insinuates what many in the blogosphere have stated directly: that
the most obvious reason Rove might have wanted to get rid of all the USAs was to get rid of Patrick Fitzgerald.more at:
http://thenexthurrah.typepad.com/the_next_hurrah/2007/07/the-usa-purge-t.html#comments
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