[ordinaryguy]

Here's the latest on the latest Monica. Colleagues Cite Partisan Focus by Justice Official
At first, I couldn't figure out why she would feel compelled to take the fifth. If, as everyone says, the US Attorneys can be fired for any reason, what laws could she have broken by being involved in their firings? Turns out, it goes a lot deeper, down to a level where it is illegal to base hiring and firing decisions on political criteria.

“I don’t know how you would put that genie back in the bottle, if people started to believe we were hiring our A.U.S.A.s (Assistant United States Attorneys) for political reasons,” he said at a House hearing this month. “I don’t know that there’s any window you can go to to get the department’s reputation back if that kind of stuff is going on.”

-- James B. Comey, former Deputy Attorney General