And then there were 10?
A former West Virginia federal prosecutor said Friday the White House fired him in 2005 in the middle of a corruption and vote-buying investigation but never told him why.
Karl K. “Kasey” Warner said he has “concerns” and sees parallels between himself and eight other ousted U.S. attorneys. Congress and an internal Justice Department agency are investigating whether those firings were politically motivated.
Warner told the AP that he refused to resign when the Justice Department asked him to, adding, “Next thing I know, I get a letter from the president’s counsel, Harriet Miers, saying I’d been fired, no reason given.”
The details on this one are still a little murky, and the AP notes a 2003 controversy in which Warner offered via email to skirt campaign finance law (an offer on which he did not follow through).
So, what was Warner working on in 2005 when he was sacked? According to the AP, he won’t comment on whether he was pressured by higher-ups and would not say who was being investigated when he was fired.
We do, however, have a fired U.S. Attorney who was investigating some kind of corruption who sees a parallel between his case and the other purged prosecutors. Developing….
Update: One tidbit the AP article neglected to mention is that James Comey seems to believe Warner deserved to be fired.
