Purging Public Trust

Using the recently-disclosed internal White House/DoJ emails, Keith Olbermann connects the dots showing how intimately involved the White House was in the politically-motivated purge of US attorneys.

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Will Thomas also did the bulk of the research for an attorney purge timeline of events for Talking Points Memo.

In the end the Republican talking points will center on denial (no law was broken), counter-accusation (no crime here, Dems are trying to score political points) and pointing blame elsewhere (Clinton purge was much bigger). They'll beat these into the ground until the networks lose interest.

Prognosis: Democrats need to get a bill in motion, putting the appointments of US attorneys back into the hands of the legislature, ASAP. No crime has been committed, but the American people know ethical wrong from right. While we shouldn't legislate ethics, we can install a process of (gasp) checks and balances to ensure that the right thing is done.