Another former U.S. attorney, Tood Graves of Kansas City, Mo., said Wednesday he was asked to step down in January 2006.
His interim replacement then filed charges against voting rights activists.
Coming from WaPo:
The former prosecutor's disclosure, in an interview on the eve of a second appearance Thursday by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales before lawmakers investigating the firings, means that the administration began moving to replace U.S. attorneys five months earlier than was previously known. It also means that at least nine prosecutors were asked to resign last year, a deviation from repeated suggestions by Gonzales and other senior Justice officials in congressional testimony and other public statements that the firings did not extend beyond the eight prosecutors already known to have been forced out.
And Alberto will testify tomorrow on Capital Hill.
Will he stick to the "nothing political" about the appointments story?
It is increasingly implausible.
What a bunch of crooks!
More from WaPo:
Bradley Schlozman, was appointed as interim U.S. attorney to succeed Graves, remaining for a year until the Senate this spring confirmed John Wood for the job. Wood was a counselor to the deputy attorney general and son of Bond's first cousin, although the senator's spokeswoman, Shana Marchio, said Bond did not recommend him for the job.
Schlozman had been a controversial figure in Justice's civil rights division for stances on voting rights. After he arrived in Kansas City, he came under fire from Democrats for pushing forward with an indictment of voter-registration activists in Missouri just weeks before last November's elections. Now a lawyer for the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, Schlozman was tentatively scheduled to testify next Tuesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. But Justice and legislative aides said Wednesday that Schlozman has requested more time to prepare his testimony.