Who Is Killing The Great Chefs Of Europe?

Actually, this movie has a slightly different title: Who Is Firing The Great US Attorneys of America? Actually, there's an easy answer to that.

Okay, so we already know that the White House has now taken the unprecedented step of firing at least four and likely seven US Attorneys in the middle of their terms of office -- at least some of whom are in the midst of corruption investigations of Bush administration officials and key Republican lawmakers. We also know that they're taking advantage of a handy provision of the USA Patriot Act that allows the White House to replace these fired USAs with appointees who don't need to be approved by the senate.

Here's the Patriot Act provision. Somebody ought to start checking the Patriot Act NOW to see if we can even get the President out of office in 2009.

This has now caught the eye of Congress, as well it should. DiFi gave a speech today on the Senate floor.



Basically, to paraphrase Ms. Feinstein if you aren't into the whole watching video thing, the Bush Administration is dumping US Attorneys who've been doing their job by investigating Republican malfeasance, and replacing them with loyal hacks, sidestepping Congressional oversight in the process.

Just when you think this Administration has run out of ways to hurt the country, they come up with something else. They are quite resourceful, you have to give them that.

It's ironic that this is the same day when the chief of staff to the Vice President began his trial for lying to a grand jury while under oath and obstructing justice. The prosecutor in the case is a US Attorney, and without him there wouldn't be this case, which will reveal more about how the White House (particularly the OVP) does its business than anything over the past six years. It's fitting that the Administration, then, picks this time to start picking off other potential meddling US Attorneys. It's a true scandal, a symbol of a Presidency that's desperately afraid of getting caught (at what, who knows?) and is systematically going about getting rid of the catchers.