Apparently Fox News’ Chris Wallace is the latest name journalist to get caught spouting the ‘Clinton did it too’ malarkey on the US Attorney firings. Wallace’s bamboozlement came on Imus. We’re going to try to get the transcript for you. But I guess it shouldn’t come as much of a surprise since he works for Fox.
In any case, there’s a short graf in the Post‘s piece today that neatly sums up the real story on this nonsense.
Although Bush and President Bill Clinton each dismissed nearly all U.S. attorneys upon taking office, legal experts and former prosecutors say the firing of a large number of prosecutors in the middle of a term appears to be unprecedented and threatens the independence of prosecutors.
Simple. To the point: Clinton and Bush both did the same thing, as has every president of a new party when he came into office.
Wallace is just trying to bamboozle his audience.
