Do you think the fired US Attorneys were told to target enemies of the GOP and the Bush Administration?

Answer 1

They were fired for politics plain and simple. If it had been for poor performance, one of them would not have been threatened and told to keep quiet or else they would destroy him. Investigations into Democrats were at a 7:1 ratio over Republicans. There were 298 investigations of Democrats versus just 67 of Republicans. The problem they ran into was that there was more evidence being turned up on Republicans than on the people they had hoped would have been dragged down.
US Attorney Bud Cummins who was replaced by the Karl Rove stooge, Tim Griffin, who himself lied on his application and claimed he had tried over 40 cases. Come to find out that he NEVER tried a case and had been 2nd chair in 3 cases all of which had been pleaded down.
U.S. Attorney David Iglesias- N.M. was fired because it was felt that he was not indicting Democrats fast enough. Republican Senator Pete Domenici violated Senate Ethics rules by trying to interfere in an on-going (at the time) investigation into a Democrat. He felt that he should have been indicted before the Nov 2006 elections. This did not happen, there was not enough evidence. Then he was fired for "poor" performance. He was able to prove prosecutions were up in his district by 40%.

U.S. Attorney Carol Lam-CA was fired because she was pursuing an ever widening corruption probe that had started as a result of the investigation into disgraced Republican Rep. Randy "Duke" Cunningham. Lam notified the Justice Department May 10,2006 that she intended to execute search warrants on a high-ranking CIA official, Kyle Dustin "Dusty" Foggo, as part of a corruption probe the day before a Justice Department official sent an e-mail that said Lam needed to be fired The timing of the e-mail suggested that Lam's dismissal may have been connected to the corruption probe

U.S. Attorney John Mckay of Seattle was fired because he did not pursue a voter fraud allegation against the Democratic Gubernatorial candidate in the hotly contested 2004. There was absolutely no evidence to warrant an investigation. This was also used a reason not to consider him for a judgeship.

U. S. Attorney Bud Cummins AR. was pursuing corruption and fraud cases involving FEMA and he was replaced by a Karl Rove crony who did not have the prosecutorial experience for the job. The Justice Department has acknowledged that Cummins, the Little Rock prosecutor, was asked to resign solely to provide a job for a former aide to presidential adviser Karl Rove.
He was also "threatened" and told not to talk to anyone about his "dismissal" or else they would take the gloves off and besmirch his reputation

U.S. Attorney Daniel Bogden Las Vegas was investigating a reputed kickback scheme that may have fleeced hundreds of millions of dollars. His office boosted firearms prosecutions, secured the convictions of dozens of violent gang members and oversaw the cases against four former Clark County commissioners convicted of taking bribes. A GOP source said Ensign was told that the decision to remove U.S. attorneys, primarily in the West, was part of a plan to "give somebody else that experience" to build up the back bench of Republicans by giving them high-profile jobs.

U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton-AZ was fired as a result of disagreements with the Department of Justice about some office policies.
If there had been no shenanigans, why was Congress told it was for poor performance? All but one of the fired prosecutors had received positive job evaluations

Then there is the little remembered U.S. attorney who was ousted to stop an investigation into Jack Abramoff. A US grand jury in Guam opened an investigation of controversial lobbyist Jack Abramoff in 2002, but President Bush removed the supervising federal prosecutor, and the probe ended soon after.
U.S. Attorney Frederick A. Black had investigators looking into Abramoff's secret arrangement with Superior Court officials to lobby against a court revision bill then pending in the U.S. Congress. There were some transactions funneled through an attorney in CA to disguise that he was being paid by the lobbyists. These transactions were the target of a grand jury subpoena issued Nov. 18, 2002. The subpoena demanded that Anthony Sanchez, administrative director of the Guam Superior Court, release records involving the lobbying contract, including bills and payments.

A day later, the chief prosecutor, U.S. Atty. Frederick A. Black, who had launched the investigation, was demoted. The investigation went away soon after that.

One of the worst performing US Attorneys was one in WI, U.S. Attorney Steve Biskupic. Georgia Thompson was a civil service employee when she was convicted of fraud by him, after being accused of steering a state travel contract to a firm whose top officials were major campaign contributors to Gov. Doyle. Never mind that she knew nothing about the campaign contributions and was just trying to save the state money. This woman was sentenced to 20 years.Then during the election, tried to link her to the incumbent Governor Doyle and claimed his administration was corrupt. It did not work and he was re-elected. In a stunning and extremely rare move, a 3-judge panel of the 7th Circuit Court of Appeals acquitted Thompson at the conclusion of oral arguments on April 5, 2007, and ordered her immediate release from prison.
The Appellate Court wrote in the brief about the abuse of power and that the US attorney needed to be investigated. Yet he still has his job. He does because he did the political bidding of this Atty General instead of actually doing his job based on facts and justice not persecution

Answer 2

No. Two of the attorney's were fired because of lack of producing...one had tried (actually going to court and prosecuting a person) only one case in a 12 month period, though there were still more cases pending. That is not a District Attorney that is willing to do his/her job. The other one, for taking more plea bargains, and reducing the penalty when their was a mandatory prison sentence. But since it was a plea, the charges were lowered, and the prison time is lessened. The case I am talking about is with a CHILD RAPIST and MURDERER. The guy was charged with 28 cases of CHILD RAPE, 3 CHARGES OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER, 2 CHARGES FOR FIRST DEGREE MAN SLAUGHTER.....the U.S. Attorney got a plea deal done so the guy plead guilty to 1 charge of man slaughter and 4 charges of sexual lewdness with a minor, and got 5 to 10 in a STATE PEN, not a FEDERAL PEN, so he will be up for parole in 4 years. I WANTED THIS PERSON TO BE NOT ONLY FIRED, but IMPRISONED for making the public unsafe in 4 to 8 years when they release this rapist back on the American Public.
Fired for POLITICS, please, THEY WERE NOT DOING THEIR JOB!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 3

Some may have been others were not but because they did not go after others vigerously enough they were seen as not doing their job. Evidence? Who needs evidence? Just find something, anything we can use against our perceived enemies. That is the Karl Rove neocon mantra. It is now unraveling.

Answer 4

Well, maybe the next president should just fire everyone and put in their people like they've done in the past. Its all politics.

Answer 5

Do you mean lately or the ones Clinton fired?

Answer 6

that's the real issue...that they may have been fired because they either were told to attack Democrats and that they were told to ignore Republican wrong doings...then were fired because they did not cooperate with this agenda

Answer 7

No. There's no evidence or testimony that supports such an allegation, either.

Answer 8

Most likely. Look at what they did to Ollie North.

Answer 9

yep.....or it was known that had too much integrity to do it, so they were targeted either way.