{"id":68443,"date":"2017-03-12T07:09:43","date_gmt":"2017-03-12T11:09:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68443"},"modified":"2017-03-12T07:14:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-12T11:14:50","slug":"remember-when-attorney-general-janet-reno-fired-93-u-s-attorneys-holdovers-from-the-reagan-and-george-h-w-bush-days","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/?p=68443","title":{"rendered":"Remember when &#8216;Attorney General Janet Reno fired 93 U.S. attorneys (holdovers from the Reagan and George H.W. Bush days)&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>1993 Clinton-Era Letter To Jeff Sessions Surfaces, Destroys Media Hysteria Over DOJ Firings<\/h1>\n<p><!--more-->By <span class=\"entry-author\"><span class=\"entry-author-name\">Brian Thomas<a class=\"entry-author-link\" href=\"http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.org\/author\/bstevens\" rel=\"author\"><br \/>\n<\/a>The Federalist Papers<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The liberal media is furious\u00a0after President Trump\u2019s Attorney General, Jeff Sessions,\u00a0fired 46 attorneys appointed by the Obama Administration.<span id=\"more-114703\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Every administration has the right and the prerogative to have its own appointees in seats of power. We\u2019ve seen this time and time again, regardless of who the President is.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s ONLY when that President is Donald J. Trump that the media loses its collective mind.<\/p>\n<p>For example, the media\u2019s extreme bias is showing when you take a look at what we just dug up: A 1993 letter from former President Clinton\u2019s Attorney General, Janet Reno, to then-Attorney Jeff Sessions.<\/p>\n<p>Attorney General Janet Reno fired 93 U.S. attorneys (holdovers from the Reagan and George H.W. Bush days), leaving only one in New Jersey spared. This was in 1993 \u2013 the first year of Bill Clinton\u2019s presidency.<\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s the letter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/attorney-G.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-114704\" src=\"http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/attorney-G.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 750px) 100vw, 750px\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/attorney-G.jpg 750w, http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.integratedmarket.netdna-cdn.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/attorney-G-267x300.jpg 267w\" alt=\"attorney G\" width=\"750\" height=\"843\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Yes, the Department of Justice just fired 46 US attorneys, and the media would have you believe that this is an outrage, unlike any other.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s become customary to treat Trump\u2019s presidency as though everything he does is unique to him alone. Painting that sort of picture allows anger to foster in those who don\u2019t remember the past.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look at this CNN tweet:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">&quot;This could not have been handled any worse&quot;: Anger mounts over DOJ&#39;s firing of 46 US attorneys without warning. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/YQGYFGVPCI\">https:\/\/t.co\/YQGYFGVPCI<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; CNN Breaking News (@cnnbrk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cnnbrk\/status\/840366477635158016?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 11, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Forty-six comes nowhere close to the massive firing of attorneys done under the Clinton Administration, yet to\u00a0the millennial\u00a0liberals too young to remember, this is just more evidence of how evil the Trump presidency is.<\/p>\n<div class=\"otw-sidebar otw-sidebar-3 otw-sidebar-vertical\"><\/div>\n<p>Yet this \u201cbreaking news\u201d was expected. Former presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush both did the same, as\u00a0did Reagan.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p>\n<p>Read More:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/articles.latimes.com\/2007\/mar\/23\/nation\/na-talking23\">LA Times: Replacing U.S. attorneys stretches back to Reagan<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014\u2014\u2014-<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nationalreview.com\/article\/445696\/jeff-sessions-us-attorneys-firing-isnt-scandalous?utm_source=facebook&amp;utm_campaign=mccarthy&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_content=sessions\">National Review<\/a> reports:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<div>\n<p>It is only natural, then, that a president will want his power wielded by his own appointees, whom he trusts to carry out his policy program. And it thus follows that, when there is a transition between administrations that see the world, and the Justice Department\u2019s role in it, as differently as the Obama and Trump administrations, there will be sweeping turnover, carried out rapidly. That is as it should be.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>[\u2026] Why would he keep in place Obama\u2019s Justice Department appointees when the first notable action taken by the one of highest rank, acting attorney general Sally Yates, was the insubordinate refusal to defend a lawfully issued executive order endorsed by Justice\u2019s Office of Legal Counsel?<\/div>\n<div><\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>___<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.org\/us\/1993-clinton-era-letter-to-jeff-sessions-surfaces-destroys-media-hysteria-over-doj-firings?utm_source=FBLC&amp;utm_medium=FB&amp;utm_campaign=LC\">http:\/\/thefederalistpapers.org\/us\/1993-clinton-era-letter-to-jeff-sessions-surfaces-destroys-media-hysteria-over-doj-firings?utm_source=FBLC&amp;utm_medium=FB&amp;utm_campaign=LC<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1993 Clinton-Era Letter To Jeff Sessions Surfaces, Destroys Media Hysteria Over DOJ Firings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68443\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation2012.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}