So now it turns out that one of the driving forces behind the US attorney purge was the Bush administration's desire to prosecute more voter fraud cases, whether or not they actually existed. (Like Reagan said: "Facts are stubborn things.") Get the words "voter fraud prosecution" out there often enough, and those pesky black and brown people might not show up at the polls.
Meanwhile, U.S. Attorney Matthew Whitaker seems to be doing a hack of a job, by Alberto and Harriet's standards, by going after Des Moines Democrat Matt McCoy. McCoy's an ambitious sort, and even better was outed last year making him a really nice GOP target. Whitaker, you may recall is the ambitious sort too: the former Hawkeye football star ran against Mike Fitzgerald in 2002 and has been subsequently floated many times since as a potential candidate for higher office... don't forget, the US attorney's office was a nice springboard for Rudy Giuliani's career.
Talking Points Memo has been all over the US attorney stuff and (in re: Carol May, the fired US attorney who put crooked GOP Rep. Duke Cunningham in jail) has the best quote:
For most White House's a US attorney involved in such a politically charged and ground-breaking corruption probe would have been untouchable, even if she'd run her office like a madhouse and was offering free twinkies to every illegal who made it across the border.
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