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Argument: Argument thesis  Bush administration staff improperly involved in U.S. Attorney firings
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Parent Node: Node supports parent assertion  Loyalty to Bush as evaluation criteria
Node Text: Deputy A.G. Comey's evaluations drastically different

"Among other steps that he took, Ayres approached then Deputy Attorney General James Comey for his thoughts. Comey gave Ayres the same list of those whom he viewed as weak U.S. attorneys that he would give Gonzales's Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson a year later. In principle, the former Justice official says, Comey was not opposed to removing incompetent people.

However, Comey's definition of incompetence turned out to be quite different from Sampson's and had nothing to do with politics, says the former official. And the only one of the fired group Comey had identified as weak was Kevin Ryan, the U.S. attorney in San Francisco. But Sampson put Ryan on his list of top prosecutors."

http://www.usnews.com/...
Node Created: coolgeek — 2007-04-10 05:28:45

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