The news seems grim, that the Bush Administration and the DOJ purged 8 US Attorney’s including the one from Seattle.

The foes, including Hillary, charge the firings are political.

Of course they are, the position is a political appointee, like the president’s Cabinet.

And Hillary should know that intimately:  Her husband and his AG Janet Reno fired 93 in one swoop.  But apparently that is vastly different.   Once again the Democrats leap on a non issue for partisan gain.

Hillary Clinton Calls for Gonzales’ Resignation

In an exclusive interview to air Wednesday morning, March 14, on “Good Morning America,” Sen. Hillary Clinton, D-N.Y., the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, for the first time called for the resignation of Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

“The buck should stop somewhere,” Clinton told ABC News senior political correspondent Jake Tapper, “and the attorney general — who still seems to confuse his prior role as the president’s personal attorney with his duty to the system of justice and to the entire country — should resign.

“I’m deeply disturbed by what we have learned thus far,” Clinton said, “and I join those who are calling for a full and thorough investigation to try to get to the bottom of these very political decisions that interfere with prosecutorial responsibility by U.S. attorneys, and I think that the attorney general should resign.”

I checked and could not find any evidence of her asking for Janet Reno’s head on a platter.  She answered that criticism thus:

When Clinton’s husband took office in 1993, one of the first actions his attorney general took was to remove every U.S. attorney. Clinton was asked how this was different from the termination of eight U.S. attorneys last December.

“There is a great difference,” Clinton said. “When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house. It’s not done on a case-by-case basis where you didn’t do what some senator or member of Congress told you to do in terms of investigations into your opponents. It is ‘Let’s start afresh’ and every president has done that.”