"Attorney Replacements Picked Prior to Firings"

"Attorney Replacements Picked Prior to Firings
White House Identified Bush Insiders for Posts, E-mails Show

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, April 13, 2007; 2:22 PM

The Justice Department identified five Bush administration insiders as replacement U.S. attorneys almost a year before most of the prosecutors were fired, contrary to repeated claims that no such list had ever been drawn up, according to documents released today..."

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"...Sampson, who has resigned as Gonzales's chief aide, also submitted prepared testimony to the Senate last month saying that, with the exception of the prosecutor in Little Rock, "none of the U.S. attorneys was asked to resign in favor of a particular individual who had already been identified to take the vacant spot..."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/AR2007041301154.html

http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_spotlight_on_christian_law_school/?page=full

Scandal puts spotlight on Christian law school
Grads influential in Justice Dept.
By Charlie Savage, Globe Staff | April 8, 2007

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. -- The title of the course was Constitutional Law, but the subject was sin. Before any casebooks were opened, a student led his classmates in a 10-minute devotional talk, completed with "amens," about the need to preserve their Christian values.

I would imagine.