WaPo: It’s All A Big MisunderstandingI won’t repeat Josh’s analysis of The Washington Post’s story this morning, in which the administration gives a half-embarrassed, and yet totally innocent, explanation for the prosecutor purge imbroglio.
Let me just flag this little telling excerpt instead:
On the job less than a year, [deputy attorney general Paul] McNulty consulted his predecessor as deputy attorney general, James B. Comey, about some of the prosecutors before approving the list, officials said. Comey, who did not return a telephone call seeking comment yesterday, praised Iglesias earlier this week as one of the department’s best prosecutors.
Comey told the Post earlier in the week, “David Iglesias was one of our finest and someone I had a lot of confidence in as deputy attorney general.” I guess McNulty didn’t ask Comey about him?
Note: Dahlia Lithwick at Slate has a good rundown of the possible motives behind the purge.