--- In [email protected], [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > In a message dated 3/13/07 10:12:38 A.M. Central Standard Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > MDixon wrote: > > Is there some reason why he couldn't fire them? > > > They all serve at the discretion of the President. President Clinton > fired all of the U.S. Attorneys after he was elected. Clinton used the > mass firing as a means of covering up his real intention -- to fire > the U.S. Attorney in his home state of Arkansas. > > > Were they union? > > > No. From what I've read, only eight prosecutors lost their > jobs, out of 93 U.S. Attorneys. Maybe the eight were simply > good candidates for replacement. > > Thank you. That is what I've been hearing for the past couple of > days and I do remember Clinton firing a whole bunch when he first > took office.
Political appointees--especially if they were appointed by a president of the other party--are always asked for their resignations by a newly elected president. The right-wingers who are pretending this was unusual are simply trying to take advantage of the public's ignorance.
