Prosecutor Purge: House GOPers Call Out DOJ, Mock Bush’s Immigration Record

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TPMmuckraker brings this Washington Times piece to our attention. House Republicans still think there was no foul play in the recent canning of eight U.S. Attorneys (no surprise there), but they do take issue with the reasons given by the DOJ (the Dems took issue a long time ago). And one reason, in particular, has them chuckling. Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a California Republican, sneered:

“It stretches anybody’s credibility to suggest that this administration would have retaliated against U.S. Attorneys for not enforcing immigration laws. This administration itself is so lax in its attitude towards immigration laws and controlling the border.”

Rohrabacher is referring to the firing of San Diego’s former U.S. Attorney Carol Lam, who was forced to resign last winter under the premise that she was not filing enough immigration cases. (Au contraire.) Anyone who has been following the prosecutor case knows that the DOJ’s allegations against Carol Lam are bogus and more likely the reason she was let go was because she was hot on the trail of defense contractor Brent Wilkes and former CIA official Kyle “Dusty” Foggo. TPMmuckraker notes that AG Alberto Gonzales’ lying evoked unity among Dems and Republicans. I’d say we owe this bipartisan harmony to Bush’s immigration record.

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