GOP wants answers on prosecutor firings

Yes you read that headline right. The GOP wants answers, not just the Dems. Perhaps sanity is returning to the Senate.

Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee say the Bush administration needs to be more straightforward about the White House's role in the dismissals of eight federal prosecutors.

"I've told the attorney general that I think this has been mishandled, that by giving inaccurate information ... at the outset, it's caused a real firestorm, and he better get the facts out fast," said Sen. John Cornyn (R-Texas).

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