U.S. Attorney Using Official Role to Clear Primary Field?*

Sources tell Fired Up! that United States Attorney for Missouri's Eastern District Catherine Hanaway has become increasingly personally involved of late in efforts to find GOP Senator and (largely irrelevant) Attorney General candidate Michael Gibbons a soft landing place into which he can drop from the race.  

Hanaway is prohibited from announcing a bid or opening a committee for elected office while she remains in her position as U.S. Attorney --a prohibition meant to insulate U.S. Attorneys from involvement in partisan politics.  But apparently Hanaway doesn't see any problem with using her considerable official influence to force potential primary rivals out of the picture while maintaining her ostensibly "politically neutral" position as a United States prosecutor.  

You'd think that someone charged with upholding the law and prosecuting its violators would be a little more careful about following the spirit of the law as well as its letter.  Maybe we need an Attorney General who'll honor both?