Whoa - Scaife Rag has Story on Bush US Attorney Prosecuting Mostly Dems

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Thornburgh was part of the legal team that vigorously defended Wecht, 78, of Squirrel Hill on public corruption charges, which U.S. Attorney Mary Beth Buchanan dropped last week.

An examination of public corruption cases brought by Buchanan since her September 2001 appointment by President Bush shows the majority of defendants were registered Democrats.

Of 18 defendants charged with public corruption crimes during her tenure, 13 were Democrats and two were Republicans -- former state Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce of Erie and a South Fayette police officer convicted of conspiring to sell nearly 9 pounds of cocaine -- according to voting records.

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Democratic officials were investigated more than five times as often as Republicans during the Bush administration, according to a 2007 study by two retired professors from the University of Missouri-St. Louis and Illinois State University.

That might have led some prosecutors to be overzealous in pursuing such cases, said G. Douglas Jones, a U.S. attorney in Birmingham, Ala., during the Clinton administration.

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/regional/s_628470.html

Past time for Obama officials to ask for these Bush appointees to tender their resignations!