Opponents Of ADMINS Prosecutor Purge Win Victory as Rove's Former Aide Bows Out

[kpete]

the opponents of the administration's prosecutor purge get their first victory -- Karl Rove's former aide is bowing out.

Prosecutor Griffin now rejects post
DEMOCRAT-GAZETTE STAFF AND WIRE REPORTS

Posted on Friday, February 16, 2007

URL: http://www.nwanews.com/adg/National/182004/


Tim Griffin, whose December appointment as U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas sparked a national outcry about surreptitious changes made to a law affecting federal prosecutors, says he no longer wants the job permanently.

“I have made the decision not to let my name go forward to the Senate,” Griffin said Thursday evening.

He was referring to the U. S. Department of Justice’s stated intention, amid heavy criticism, to subject Griffin and others recently appointed to interim federal-prosecutor posts to the standard process of being nominated by the president, scrutinized by the U. S. Senate Judiciary Committee and then voted on by the Senate.

Griffin, 38, a former military prosecutor, was appointed Dec. 20 by U. S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales under a little-noticed provision tacked onto the 2006 reauthorization of the USAPATRIOT Act that allows the attorney general to fill prosecutorial vacancies on an interim basis without Senate approval.

more at:
http://www.nwanews.com/adg/National/182004/print/

[Richard Steele]

1. Unless he was cleaning out his desk when he said it, this means nothing.

Is there any sort of time limit on the interim
in the "interim basis"? Or can they simply NEVER
seek Senate approval, and leave him there as a
"temporary for life" appointee?

[The Backlash Cometh]

2. Wow, things are developing quickly. Tom Griffin is one of the

prosecutors who replaced one of the federal prosecutors removed by Gonzo:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=102x2733392