The former U.S. attorney in Kansas City, Mo., Todd P. Graves, said yesterday that he was asked to step down from his job by a senior Justice Department official in January 2006, months before eight other federal prosecutors would be fired by the Bush administration.

Add Mr. Black in Guam and you have ten. This is the going to be the end. The best case scenario is going to be if Bush can find someone to step in like Ford to pardon him and Cheney. The more likely scenario? Danbury. The first charge will be obstruction of justice relating to the attorney firings (Lam vs Lewis, Doolittle and Abramoff, Graves and the bogus voter fraud cases in Missouri, Black and more fun with Jack Abramoff, Iglesias vs Renzi) and it will not improve from there.

Sorry George, there is no executive privilege when you break the law.