Report on U.S Attorney firings released.
Jon Ralston has posted the report of the Inspector General on the firing of Nevada’s U.S. Attorney, Daniel Bogden, at the LV Sun website. The IG concludes that Bogden was probably placed on the removal list because he refused to assign an attorney to the obscenity task force to prosecute a case that sounds as though it would have been a rather pointless use of resources, as it appears to have involved nothing more than a man and his wife posting on the Internet videos of themselves engaged in acts a task force member considered obscene.
Kyle Sampson, the person who compiled the various lists of U.S. Attorneys to be removed, acknowledged to the IG that there may have been U.S. Attorneys whose performance was “worse” than Bogden’s, but were not removed because they had the right political connections.
Worse, of course is a relevant term, since no one, other than the head of the Obscenity Task Force, appears to have had any complaints about Bogden at all.
