ALL THE ATTORNEYS. Just to clarify and revise a bit, Jeff and commenters here both compel me to say that asking for the resignations of all U.S. attorneys at once (as Harriet Miers is said to have contemplated doing) is actually in itself neither unprecedented nor scandalous, particularly following a change in administration or new term. Thus, as Jeff says, the fact that Miers allegedly originally intended to replace all 93 attorneys is meant to be a point in the White House's defense. Meanwhile, the scandal of what actually happened here (in which Miers is deeply involved) is of course in the motivation of the targeting and the rampant lying to Congress about the whole thing.
--Sam Rosenfeld
