Tag: U.S. Attorney Firing
By Jeralyn, Section Other Politics
Posted on Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 01:38:00 AM EST
Tags: U.S. Attorney Firing (all tags)
Posted on Thu Mar 22, 2007 at 01:38:00 AM EST
Tags: U.S. Attorney Firing (all tags)
Let's not restrict the U.S. Attorney firing scandal to those who got fired. According to the Justice Department's lead prosecutor in the tobacco lawsuit,
Bush administration political appointees repeatedly ordered her to take steps that weakened the government's racketeering case.
Sharon Y. Eubanks said Bush loyalists in Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales's office began micromanaging the team's strategy in the final weeks of the 2005 trial, to the detriment of the government's claim that the industry had conspired to lie to U.S. smokers.
The specifics of her allegations:
Below the Fold.
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