Senior counsel Sharon Eubanks, a 22-year veteran attorney at the U.S. Department of Justice, quit her job on the cusp of the most significant legal victory of her career. She left in December 2005, just eight months before a judge would decide the huge tobacco case she had devoted six years to prosecuting.
She was not the only lawyer to leave a Justice post abruptly, citing interference from politicians in the Bush administration. Echoes of Eubanks’ allegations reverberated in this year’s scandal involving accusations that Attorney General Alberto Gonzalez and his top deputies fired nine U.S. attorneys for not towing the administration’s political line. Gonzales has apologized for the manner in which the attorneys were fired, but insists that “nothing improper occurred,” according to CNN.
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