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Gonzales Taps Bush Supporters to Fill US Attorney Vacancies
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/012707Y.shtml
Attorney General Alberto Gonzales is transforming the ranks of the nation's top
federal prosecutors by firing some and appointing conservative loyalists from
the Bush administration's inner circle who critics say are unlikely to buck
Washington. The nine recent appointees identified by McClatchy Newspapers held
high-level White House or Justice Department jobs, and most of them were
handpicked by Gonzales under a little-noticed provision of the Patriot Act that
became law in March.