Where Does KDKA's Fred Honsberger Get His Information?

I only ask because I heard him use a new argument in defending dubya's decision to fire 8 US Attorneys for political reasons. Oddly enough he did not use argument that because President Clinton fired all 93 US Attorneys at the beginning of his first administration, CLINTON DID THE SAME THING.

Good for Fred for not going with that bogus argument.

The problem? Fred used an entirely NEW bogus argument. He said that Clinton did the same thing - he fired 23 US Attorneys all on the same day - midterm.

That was a new one. I did some research and what did I find?

It's so completely bogus it makes the first bogus argument look completely sane in comparison.

Take a look at this report from the Congressional Research Service. The CRS which describes itself as:

The Congressional Research Service is the public policy research arm of the United States Congress. As a legislative branch agency within the Library of Congress, CRS works exclusively and directly for Members of Congress, their Committees and staff on a confidential, nonpartisan basis.

The report itself is posted via OpenCRS.com.

Take a look at the data in the report:

This report provides data on U.S. attorneys who did not complete their full fouryear term after confirmation by the Senate and whose terms did not carry over a change in presidential administration.

Know what they found? Between 1981 and 2003, there were 54 US Attorneys who fit the above criteria.

Of those 54, 17 left to become Article III federal judges, one left to become a federal magistrate judge, six left to serve in other positions in the executive branch, four sought elective office, two left to serve in state government, one died, and 15 left to enter or return to private practice. Of the remaining eight U.S. attorneys who left before completing a four-year term without a change in presidential administration, two were apparently dismissed by the President, and three apparently resigned after news reports indicated they had engaged in questionable personal actions. No information was available on the three remaining U.S. attorneys who resigned.

So where are the 23 that Clinton fired "on the same day"?

At the end of the full report there's a detailed appendix with the data that supports the report's findings. During the Clinton years there were 8 USAttorneys who left their jobs.

• Vicki Lynn Miles-LaGrange left to be a Federal Judge on 11/94.
• Claude Harris Jr. died on 10/02/94.
• Edmund A. Sargus, Jr. left to be a Federal Judge in 08/96.
• Joseph Preston Strom, Jr. left for the private sector in 1996.
• Kendall Brindley Coffey resigned on 05/17/96.
• Larry Herbert Colleton resigned on 07/94.
• James Lamar Wiggins left to seek elective office in 1996.
• Kent Barron Alexander left for the private sector in 1997.

So where did Fred Honsberger get the data on the 23 US Attorneys that Clinton fired on the same day, midterm?

Or was he just making it up as he went along, hoping no one would check his "facts"?