Chuck Sweeny has a column in this morning's Register Star about the hot seat currently occupied by Michael Elston, a Justice Department official who previously worked as an assistant U.S. attorney in Rockford.
Elston is alleged to have made a threat of retaliation against at least one of eight federal prosecutors who have been fired for what seems to some us to have been purely political reasons -- and who are not going quietly.
In other developments in this story, there's new pressure on Elston's boss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, to resign. And now there's talk that Elston may have committed a crime (to wit, obstruction of justice).
What a wonderful bunch this Bush crowd is!
UPDATE: Newsweek is out with a report that Elston also called another cashiered federal prosecutor in the apparent hope that publicity about the matter could be avoided.
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