Six of the seven US attorneys who were recently sacked by the Bush administration and are to be replaced without Congressional oversight under an obscure provision of the Patriot Act had had positive performance appraisals but had also had political conflicts with the administration over "issues ranging from immigration to the death penalty". Perhaps most importantly "most of the prosecutors were overseeing significant public-corruption investigations" at least four of which have Republicans or Republican supports as their targets. I am certain however that there could be no political motivation for these sackings and anything which makes it appear that way is just an unfortunate coincidence.
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