Mark Souder: “I would first like to say a few words in defense, albeit a mild defense, of Attorney General Reno. Her job is not easy.…”

“I would first like to say a few words in defense, albeit a mild defense, of Attorney General Reno. Her job is not easy. After all, it is not as though she is a nonpartisan person. She is a long-time democrat. She was a staff director at the Florida House Judiciary Committee. She ran for the State legislature and lost. She was a long time State's attorney. She came to Washington as a partisan democrat and these days have to be very hard on the Attorney General, seeing around her all these allegations and all of these challenges. It has to be heart rending to her. The Attorney General was appointed by a democratic president and can be fired by that democratic president. So she has to look and consider that, even though you try not to when you are Attorney General of the United States. It is a fact. She is surrounded by political staff, democratic appointees. Remember, this White House sent the close Arkansas ally, Webb Hubbell, since in prison, to be her deputy Attorney General. This bears repeating. It is not every day that the Nation gets a deputy Attorney General who goes to jail while that administration is still in power. That is another thing that clearly made her job not easy.”