calls the Bush administration appointment pattern "very unusual."

One-third of US attorney jobs went to Bush insiders | RAW STORY | Published: Sunday April 1, 2007

"About one-third of the nearly four dozen U.S. attorney's jobs that have changed hands since President Bush began his second term have been filled by the White House and the Justice Department with trusted administration insiders," writes the Washington Post.

Experts tell the Post that no other administration in recent history has had such a penchant for filling prosecutor jobs with political friends.

James Eisenstein, a Penn State political scientist and expert on US attorneys, calls the Bush administration appointment pattern "very unusual." ...