Editorials in both The Charleston Gazette and the Charleston Daily Mail today call on former U.S. Attorney Karl "Kasey" Warner to waive his right to keep private the reasons for his August 2005 firing.
The U.S. Justice Department essentially dared Warner to sign a waiver after he told The Associated Press last week that the White House fired him in 2005 in the middle of a corruption and vote-buying investigation but never told him why. (Blogged details here.)
Warner "declines to say whether he'll sign a waiver and allow the Department of Justice to publicly release its reasons for firing him," the Charleston Daily Mail reported today.
"The Department of Justice's credibility on the U.S. attorney departures is a matter of public record," Warner told the newspaper via email. "If an appropriate, unbiased governmental entity contacts me concerning my governmental service, I will - like any responsible citizen - cooperate fully."
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