Graves says he was fired

Add Todd Graves of Missouri to the list of federal prosecutors asked to step down by the Bush Administration.
Graves told The Washington Post he was asked to resign in January 2006:

Graves said he was told simply that he should resign to "give another person a chance." He said he did not oppose the department's request, because he had already been planning to return to private practice. He did appeal to Missouri's senior senator to try to persuade the White House to allow him to remain long enough to prosecute a final, important case -- involving the slaying of a pregnant woman and kidnapping of her 8-month fetus. Justice officials rejected the request.

Graves' revelation indicates that Administration officials have not been telling the truth about how wide ranging this dismissal of U. S. attorneys was:

The former prosecutor's disclosure, in an interview on the eve of a second appearance today by Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales before lawmakers investigating the firings, means that the administration began moving to replace U.S. attorneys five months earlier than was previously known. It also means that at least nine prosecutors were asked to resign last year, a deviation from repeated suggestions by Gonzales and other senior Justice officials in congressional testimony and other public statements that the firings did not extend beyond the eight prosecutors already known to have been forced out.

At the least, it appears that the people in charge of Justice, particularly Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, the very people who should stand for truth, have little or no regard for it.