Letters to the Editor
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Clinton did it...
So it must be right? First of all, ignoring the fact that according to Republicans, EVERYTHING Clinton did was wrong, the point isn't that Clinton did it.
Yes, the prosecutors serve at the pleasure of the President. During the Clinton administration, however, there was no law on the books that allowed the President to nominate the posts WITHOUT SENATE APPROVAL! When the Patriot Act was put in place, it allowed the President to nominate prosecutors without the consent of the Senate. So when you get to firing prosecutors, then nominating them without congressional approval, then you get a completely different animal.
Clinton had no ability to nominate political hatchet men, simply because he knew they would have to pass muster in the Senate. With the Patriot Act on the books, Bush could nominate Karl Rove to be a prosecutor, and the Senate couldn't have a say about it until Bush's term was OVER.
Besides, if Clinton fired prosecutors because they refused to go after Republicans, don't you think we would've heard about it? In the myriad of investigations held during his tenure as president, you don't think we would've found out that his Prosecutors were unfairly targeting republicans or ignoring democrats?
Republicans really have no sense of irony, no sense of decency, and have become shameful apologists for one of the most corrupt and damaging administrations in the history of this country.