DOJ Concocted "Reasons" For US Attorneys's Firings Just This Month!

Los Angeles Times:

Senior Justice Department officials began drafting memos earlier this month listing specific reasons why they had fired eight U.S. attorneys, intending to cite performance problems such as insubordination, leadership failures and other missteps if needed to convince angry congressional Democrats that the terminations were justified.

The memos -- organized as charts with entries for each of the federal prosecutors and labeled "for internal DOJ use only" -- offer details about disputes over policy, priorities and management styles between the department and several of its U.S. attorneys. The prosecutors' shortcomings also were listed in a talking points memo, indicating the willingness of the Justice Department to make public what are normally confidential personnel matters in order to counter its critics.

Justice officials hoped that documenting specific reasons for terminating the prosecutors would satisfy demands for more information after Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales and his deputy, Paul J. McNulty, initially described the dismissals as vaguely "performance-related."

Bullshit liars! The attorneys were fired for not being Bush crony political hacks, and the DOJ then tried to come up with performance-related excuses to justify it. Make no mistake: our Constitution, and the rule of law, are under full-scale attack. This is a battle that must be won, or our system of government will cease to be.