Attorney General Michael Mukasey has appointed Nora Dannehy, a federal prosecutor from Connecticut, as prosecutor in the continued investigation of the removal of nine U.S. attorneys.It's about damn time! This should have been done a long time ago.
Side note: If Barack Obama wins the election next month, the best way to move the Attorney General's office away from it's current partisan posture would be to appoint a responsible Republican to the post. (And if it's McCain, a responsible Democrat.)
Former U.S. Senator Warren Rudman of New Hampshire, perhaps? Or, as Chicago Sun-Times columnist Carol Marin suggested a couple of weeks ago, Valerie Plame special prosecutor Patrick Fitzgerald? Either one of those guys would return honor to a Justice Department that has been devastated by the Fascist Bush Republicans, while at the same time slapping down any over-reach that may happen by over-zealous Democrats.
