E-mails Tie Prosecutor-Gate to the White House

The Los Angeles Times is reporting that e-mails turned over as evidence to the House and Senate Judiciary Committees reveal that the White House was involved in the plot to dismiss U.S. Attorneys for political reasons. Here's a quote:

Initially, Sampson and then-White House Counsel Harriet E. Miers mused about firing all 93 U.S. attorneys, wiping the slate clean and replacing them with new appointees at the start of Bush's second term. Such a broad gesture would have sprinkled political gratitude to operatives like Griffin of Arkansas, who had worked in the 2004 campaign, they thought.

But they soon backed off that idea as too disruptive. So they began making lists of individuals, and eventually settled on eight.