No Criminal Charges Against Bush Officials for Attorney Firings

Matt Apuzzo and Pete Yost/The Associated Press

The Bush administration’s Justice Department‘s actions were inappropriately political, but not criminal, when it fired aU.S. attorney in 2006, prosecutors said Wednesday in closing a two-year investigation without filing charges.

The decision closes the books on one of the lingering political disputes of the Bush administration, one that . . . → Read More: No Criminal Charges Against Bush Officials for Attorney Firings