Ready for more sleuthing? We’ve just opened up a new post and discussion thread at TPMmuckraker for analyzing and reporting on tonight’s DOJ document dump.
One fun nugget that might be amusing to those who got snookered by the ‘immigration enforcement’ bamboozlement …
The e-mails also show that administration officials struggled to find a way to justify the firings and considered citing immigration enforcement simply because three of the fired prosecutors were stationed near the border with Mexico. While the e-mails don’t provide evidence of partisan motives for the firings, they seem to undercut the administration’s explanation that the prosecutors were dismissed for poor performance.
“The one common link here is that three of them are along the southern border so you could make the connection that DOJ is unhappy with the immigration prosecution numbers in those districts,” Tasia Scolinos, a senior public affairs specialist at the Justice Department, told Catherine Martin, a White House communications adviser, in an e-mail.
