Tuesday, April 17, 2007

More Gonzales   [Rich Lowry]

My grand theory of the U.S. Attorney firings is that the process was so ramshackle and ad hoc that even those doing the firings don't really know why some of these peopled were fired. (I hear that was basically Kyle Sampson's bottom line in his interview over the weekend with the Judiciary committee.) Yes, it seems pretty clear part of the reason Iglesias was put on the list was because Domenici was complaining about him, but I bet if the process had strung along another three months or so, Iglesias would have been off the list and someone else would have been on—whoever had been complained about by someone or other most recently. In most Washington scandals, you get a choice of saying you were evil or incompetent—here the incompetence defense seems almost, if not quite, air tight. My column on all this today is here.

04/17 01:25 PMShare