Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.
--Alexander Hamilton
From TPMmuckraker:
From The Seattle Post-Intelligencer:
At their annual convention here, members of the statewide organization of moderate and center-right Republicans clapped enthusiastically when McKay, the former U.S. attorney for Western Washington, declared that the "enormous power" vested in federal prosecutors "cannot be associated with partisan politics."...
He said he and at least five of the other fired U.S. attorneys compared notes and concluded that "if we did remain silent, we were part of the lie, so that is why I spoke out."
Since then, McKay added, "senior officials at the Department of Justice have compounded early misstatements with lies and with cover-ups."...
McKay said he has no intention of running for political office, as some have speculated, and is troubled by the furor over the firings because "I felt this responsibility as a Republican (that) I did not want to be in the public arena handing spears to the Democrats to throw at the White House."
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