Government
Apr. 4, 2007
Untenable Position
Forum Column - By Andrew B. Coan - Until it's proved otherwise, the public should assume the worst in the president's firing of eight U.S. attorneys. So says a lecturer at Stanford Law School.
By Andrew B. Coan
After initial sputtering, the Bush administration seems finally to have settled on a two-pronged strategy for managing the political firestorm sparked by last year's dismissal of eight U.S. attorneys.
First, Bush and his advisers insist that U.S. attorneys are political appointees who serve "at the pleasure of the preside...
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