Firing US Attorneys

On the news Tuesday was a peice that President Bush discussed firing all the US Attorneys and replacingthem. The media was very upset and ws calling for the resignation of the Attorny General and theDemocratics were going to hold Congressional Hearings aboutit.

What disturbed me was no actionwas taken by the Bush Administration except to remove 8 US Attorneys. I have served on the inner circle of several School Districts and very often the Superintendent will come to a meeting with the building administrators and Central Office Administrators, similar to the Presidents Cabinet or the White House Senior members, to discuss a problem. At these meetings we are expected to throw out ALL IDEAS for discussion. I may put forth an idea that I do not agree with just to have it on the table. What you want to do is discuss all possible ideas so that when questioned by the board or others you can say we talked about it and these are the problems or concerns with that idea. This is a healthy discussion and should be encouraged not looked at as somthing evil. The discussion might have come about by some one presenting a concern that the US Attorneys Office was not invesgating and procuting Federal Corruption and Influence Peddling because they were too busy looking into the small time drug dealers to build up thier conviction rate. The drug crimes should be handled by the local Police. One of the people present might respond then fire them all. The discussion would then eventurally come around to lets fire only those who are spendig their time on crimes that local police should be dealing with and lets get rid of those and state that our efforts should be spent looking into corruption that involvedthe Federal Government and Government Contracts.

I am afraid what will happen is no one is going to want to float ideas for fear of being fired because the media makesit amajor issue. The media does this every day by meeting to decide what stories to cover and what to ignore and no one wants them fired for covering the wrong story.

Should the free flow of ideas be encouraged even if it means that BadIdeas are discussed and dismissed or should we only have one thought be acceptical?