Changing of the Guard?

Justin Rood is investigating whether there's something behind the trend of U.S. Attorneys leaving their jobs recently and being replaced by interim Bush appointees. One of them is John McKay, the top prosecutor for Western Washington who resigned last month. It looks like he may have been forced out based upon some of the quotes in that article.

If he's the victim of an ideological purge, though, I can't imagine what kind of stark raving mad ideologue would replace him. McKay has been the prosecutor involved with trying to get Marc Emery extradited to Seattle to face charges in the U.S. for mailing marijuana seeds to American customers, saying, "We have a huge regional, national and international issue here in the growing of marijuana in lower British Columbia."

If the Bush Administration has found someone more nutty than that to be the main federal prosecutor in Western Washington, god help us all.

UPDATE: Emmett O'Connell has more at Washblog.