Michael Roston, rawstory.com
D. Kyle Sampson, the former Chief of Staff to Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, will tell the Senate Judiciary Committee this morning that the firing of eight US Attorneys by the White House was justified and appropriate, but handled poorly.
But, most surprisingly, Sampson is set to testify that the terminations were “political” in nature, but not in the manner that most critics have pegged them.
“The distinction between ‘political’ and ‘performance-related’ reasons for removing a United States Attorney is, in my view, largely artificial,” Sampson said in his prepared remarks, which were posted by the McClatchy-Tribune News Service and are now available at this link.