I thought this was a neat bit of information over at Ezra Klein’s place. One of the key aspects of the Purgegate scandal are that some of the attorneys may have been fired because they either were too aggressive prosecuting Republicans (Southern California) or not aggressive enough prosecuting Democrats (New Mexico and Washington). Democrats are now alleging that the Bush administration has engaged in a systematic policy to prosecute local Democrats while letting corrupt GOPers off the hook. Does the data bear it out?:
Data indicate that the offices of the U.S. Attorneys across the nation investigate seven (7) times as many Democratic officials as they investigate Republican officials, a number that exceeds even the racial profiling of African Americans in traffic stops.
Since I don’t think there is any evidence that Democrats are seven times more likely to be corrupt than the Republican counterparts, this is pretty damning.