Amazingly enough, AG Mukasey has appointed a special prosecutor to investigate the firing of U.S. Attorneys:
Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Monday appointed a prosecutor to examine potential criminal charges in the Justice Department's firings of nine federal prosecutors after an inquiry found evidence several of the dismissals were politically motivated.
The appointment of Nora Dannehy, a federal prosecutor in Connecticut, came as the department released an inspector general's report that found former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales had "abdicated" his responsibility in the matter
The announcement is even more surprising by the harshness in tone and seriousness of the charges:
At a minimum, the process by which nine U.S. Attorneys were removed in 2006 was haphazard, arbitrary and unprofessional, and that the way in which the Justice Department handled those removals and the resulting public controversy was profoundly lacking
Not surprising was the revelation that Karl Rove and other White House officials refused to be interviewed. He lays the blame squarely where it belongs:
The primary responsibility for these serious failures rests with senior department leaders -- Attorney General Alberto Gonzales and Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty -- who abdicated their responsibility to oversee the process and ensure that the reasons for removal of each U.S. attorney were ... not improper.
I like the timing of this which, obviously, was not politically good from the Rethug point of view. Let's get this thing going!
This news release came from fidelity.com: