the only way US attorneys are accountable to voters are by the pleasure of the President.
otherwise everybody is a special prosecutor
The firing of eight United States attorneys looks like a political purge, and President Bush and his White House are in the thick of it.
``I must give him his due. He has considerably cretinized me.'' Lautréamont
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