<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/3779e54f-403c-4509-8460-372659ffb8e3/D1A8E7C2-0303-4333-B4E4-0775611D4F2B/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html" href="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html" style="font-size: 11px;">legaltimes.typepad.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html"><P>In a meeting last month with the Barack Obama’s transition staff, representatives of the nation’s top prosecutors caught a glimpse of the president-elect’s thinking on the politically fraught issue of what to do with the the current 93 U.S. attorneys. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html">U.S. Attorney <A href="http://www.usdoj.gov/usao/txw/us_attorney/index.html">Johnny Sutton</A> of Texas’ Western District</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html">said he left the meeting with the impression that the president-elect will address the U.S. attorneys individually. “I think they’re going to work on a case-by-case basis</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html">The last two administrations suffered political wounds for their handling of U.S. attorneys. The Justice Department is still recovering from the scandal over the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in President George W. Bush’s second term</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html">President Bill Clinton and Attorney General Janet Reno were panned for sacking 92 of them in 1993</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2009/01/transition-staff-briefly-addresses-the-us-attorney-question.html">Obama has said publicly he will retain Patrick Fitzgerald, of Illinois’ Northern District, who is supervising the criminal case against Gov. Rod Blagojevich</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/D1A8E7C2-0303-4333-B4E4-0775611D4F2B/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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