Hillary Lies Again

This morning, on ABC's "Good Morning America" (transcript here), Hillary Clinton told another whopper.

Asked to justify her outrage at the Justice Department's firing of 8 US attorneys, when her husband had ordered the firing of all 93 at the outset of his Administration, Hillary responded thusly:

This is a great difference. When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house. It is not done on case-by-case basis where you didn't do something that some senator or member of Congress told you to do in terms of investigation into opponents. It is 'Let's start afresh.' Every president has done that. (emphasis added)

In fact, every president has not conducted mass firings of US attorneys, as Hillary should well know. Part of the controversy generated by Clinton's decision sprung from the fact that the firings were unprecedented. As Investors Business Daily has noted, the mass firings were "something no administration has done before or since."

What's more, Hillary misrepresents the reasons for the firings with her remarks implying that the Bush Administration fired the US attorneys because "you didn't do something that some senator or member of Congress told you to do in terms of investigation into opponents."

As Patterico points out, there were in fact legitimate reasons that these eight US attorneys were shown the door.