More on why Bud Cummins lost his job

The Washington Post yesterday had another look behind the curtain at the increasingly politicized Department of Justice – with regard to the round of firings of US Attorneys who were investigating Republican officeholders, including Bud Cummins who led the investigation on Governor Blunt’s fee office schemes.

From the story:

The administration previously said that the White House counsel recommended a GOP replacement for one U.S. attorney, in Arkansas... 

At least five of the prosecutors...were presiding over public corruption investigations when they were fired, but Justice Department officials have said that those probes played no role in the dismissals.

The story also indicated the list of prosecutors to be fired “was assembled last fall, based largely on complaints from members of Congress."

The New York Times also reported on this troublesome story…

Justice Department officials…now [anonymously] acknowledge that the dismissals were mishandled…the agency’s contradictory accounts about whether the dismissals were performance-related helped spur suspicions.