Kevin Drum comes up with the new name for the US Attorneys scandal: The USA-8. Consider it adopted.
The overview of the massive document dump by TPM Muckraker is still ongoing, but already K-Drum has found a gem:
it turns out that the five firings with the weakest official explanations are the same five prosecutors who have been suspected of being either too tough on Republican corruption cases or too weak on Democratic ones. You can't very well put that on your summary sheet, though, which probably explains why the DOJies had trouble coming up with good reasons for firing them. The dots are practically begging to be connected here.
As a reminder, here is Kevin's summary of those 5. Keep in mind that his conclusions come directly from the emails released by the DoJ. No speculation here, just facts:
David Iglesias: Didn't bring indictments against some local Democrats prior to the 2006 election. John McKay: Failed to invent voter fraud cases that might have prevented a Democrat from winning the 2004 governor's race in Washington. Carol Lam: Doing too good a job prosecuting trainloads of Republicans in the wake of the Duke Cunningham scandal. Daniel Bogden and Paul Charlton: In the midst of investigations targeting current or former Republican members of Congress when they were fired.
One more reminder while I'm at it. ThinkProgress has already connected the dots directly to the White House. That one still lives in the realm of speculation, but if true, well...
UPDATE: This is fun. In the case of Brad Cummins, the USA who was replaced by one of Rove's proteges, the DoJ passed over Cummins' first assistant USA, Jane Duke, in violation of department rules because Duke was pregnant. Which is, you know.... against the law.
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