Letters to the Editor
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I keep asking, and no one at Salon is willing to answer;
...what if a President Hillary Clinton, in response to complaints from Texas Democrats (maybe a telephone call or two from Sheila Jackson Lee) replaced a Texas US Attorney who appeared to be too focused on prosecuting immigration cases, and not spending enough time and resources on proseucting voting-rights cases for minorities? Or maybe the attorney had been too aggressive in seeking the death penalty, to the extent that President Hillary was uncomfortable with the USA's performance. In doing so, President Hillary didn't interfere with any ongoing investigation, and didn't tell any US Attorney to start or stop any prosecutions. There would ha ve been no obstruction of justice in any sense of the word. President Hillary knew that the US Attorney that she was firing was a conservative Democrat or a progressive Republican that she had appointed herself earlier, and the the attorney in question was a capable prosecutor (indeed that is why the person got the job).
Would you all be hollering about how the DoJ had been politicized? Would you be calling for investigations?