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Friday, March 16, 2007

Press briefings were given

White House press secretary Tony Snow told reporters that it was no longer clear who first initiated the idea of dismissing a large number of the 93 federal prosecutors following the 2004 elections.

"It has been described as her idea but . . . I don't want to try to vouch for origination," Snow said, referring to [Harriet] Miers. "At this juncture, people have hazy memories." - Washington Post, March 16, 2007
I love that the White House's current position is that no one can remember whose idea it was to dismiss all or a significant fraction of the U.S. Attorneys. And "At this juncture, people have hazy memories" surely takes its place among the classics of the genre.

In a small footnote to all this, KUOW's Steve Scher satisfied his obligatory-wrong-fact obligation for today by suggesting that Miers was with the President on his Latin America trip, when in fact she resigned as White House Counsel effective January 31.

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