Letters to the Editor
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Nice, as far as it goes
Joe Conason's article about the firing and replacing of these prosecutors is good as far as it goes, especially pointing out that a Republican opposition research hack as prosecutor in Arkansas could be to dig up dirt on Hillary Clinton.
But beyond the agglomeration of executive power and keeping the hounds at bay in corruption investigations like Carol Lam's, there is the issue of indictment of Bush Administration officials themselves. 19 of them, including Gonzales, Rumsfeld, Cambone, and others, are under indictment in Germany for war crimes. With a Democratic Congress that has several senators and congressmen doing investigations, there may be more charges along the way, serious ones. And there is the issue that anyone charged with an international criminal offense is supposed to go on Interpol and the U.S. is supposed to cooperate on at least arresting such a person and negotiating terms for extradition.
Gonzales, and others for that matter, may be also trying to save their own necks.