Anatomy of a Purge30 and climbing.
In a story this morning, McClatchy ups The Washington Post’s toll of 26 U.S. attorneys to 30. So now we’re up to one-third of the nation’s 93 U.S. attorneys who were once tagged for firing over the course of Kyle Sampson’s two-year “process.”*
To make all that brainstorming easier to wrap your head around, the Post ran a great graphic that shows which U.S. attorneys appeared on what list and when. We’ve incorporated the Post’s information into a document collection series of the firing lists so you can see how the lists were presented in the various emails.
So now we know who, how, and when. But why? It’s clear from local press reports that the vast majority of the U.S. attorneys once targeted for firing never heard any complaints from their superiors about their performance. So the search continues.
*Update: Today’s Post also added the four names:
Sources yesterday identified four other current or former U.S. attorneys included on a Jan. 1 list that grouped a dozen prosecutors into three tiers. They include current U.S. Attorneys Matthew Mead of Wyoming and Eric Melgren of Kansas and former prosecutors James K. Vines of Nashville and Michael G. Heavican of Nebraska.