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(詳細はU.S. attorneys dismissed from office in the United States Department of Justice in 2006. Eight were dismissed In December 2006, and others may have been forced out of office under similar circumstances in 2005 and 2006. The manner of the firings, the congressional response to them, and the explanations offered by Bush administration officials are aspects of a political controversy starting in the first quarter of 2007. As of May 2007 a clear explanation of why the attorneys were dismissed had not been put forward by the Bush administration or the Department of Justice leadership. There are in total 93 U.S. attorneys that serve 94 Federal district courts (two Pacific island territory districts share one attorney). == List of dismissed attorneys == Seven attorneys were dismissed on December 7, 2006. Subsequent disclosures showed that two additional attorneys, Bud Cummins and Todd Graves, may have been dismissed under similar circumstances earlier in 2006.〔 〕 Bud Cummins is frequently associated with those dismissed on December 7 because he announced his resignation in mid-December, effective December 20, 2006. However, Cummins had been informed of his pending dismissal in June 2006.〔 (Q & A from Committee for Bud Cummins ) (no date). ''United States House Committee on the Judiciary'' Retrieved May 18, 2007. (Written responses by Bud Cummins to committee interrogatories, post-hearing.) 〕 The dismissal of Cummins received significant attention from the media and from congressional investigators after Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty testified that his dismissal was requested from the White House in order to install Karl Rove protégé Timothy Griffin in his place.〔 〕 Both Todd Graves, and his replacement, Department of Justice official Bradley Schlozman, have been called to testify in the ongoing Senate investigation of the U.S. Attorney controversy.〔() United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary website - Schedule for June 5, 2007 hearing "Preserving Prosecutorial Independence: Is the Department of Justice Politicizing the Hiring and Firing of U.S. Attorneys? -- Part V"〕 Two U.S. Attorneys who were fired in 2005, Thomas M. DiBiagio and Kasey Warner, have made public statements claiming that there may be similarities between their dismissals and those of the nine attorneys fired in 2006. To date, their cases have received significantly less attention from the media in comparison to the attorneys fired in 2006.〔Number of articles returned via LexisNexis () search of 2-years-prior, full text articles in major papers for "Attorney" and the following: "Kasey Warner" - 10, "Thomas DiBiagio" - 3, "Todd Graves" - 23. All other 2006 attorneys returned between 46 (Bogden) and 362 (Lam) articles. Search date 5-30-2007〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dismissed U.S. attorneys summary」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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