Rove spin is False.

Rove is trying to control the US Attorney story by saying that firing US Attorneys is done all the time. This is not even remotely true. Here is the story.

From Think Progress:

"Clinton’s former chief of staff John Podesta told ThinkProgress that Rove’s claim is “pure fiction.” The Clinton administration never fired federal prosecutors as political retribution:
Mr. Rove’s claims today that the Bush administration’s purge of qualified and capable U.S. attorneys is “normal and ordinary” is pure fiction. Replacing most U.S. attorneys when a new administration comes in — as we did in 1993 and the Bush administration did in 2001 — is not unusual. But the Clinton administration never fired federal prosecutors as pure political retribution. These U.S. attorneys received positive performance reviews from the Justice Department and were then given no reason for their firings.
We’re used to this White House distorting the facts to blame the Clinton administration for its failures. Apparently, it’s also willing to distort the facts and invoke the Clinton administration to try to justify its bad behavior."

For the record Kyle Sampson (second in command at the Justice Department and relieved of his job yesterday) agrees with Podsta. Here is his memo of January 9th, to Heriett Meyers