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Following yesterday’s stunning revelation by the Washington Post that 26 US attorneys had been considered for dismissals, professionals all around the country are trying to figure out what the Justice Department felt they were doing wrong. Local papers in Mississippi, New Jersey, North Carolina, Kentucky and Georgia ask their own attorneys. The consensus? Says stunned USA Dunn Lampton (MS): “I don’t have a clue.”Despite constant reassurances that he would not take advantage of the former Patriot Act that allowed interim US Attorneys to serve indefinitely, Gonzales has let former Rove-protégé Tim Griffin serve a full month past his interim term limit.


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