The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that
Tim Griffin, whose December appointment as U. S. attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas sparked a national outcry about surreptitious changes made to a law affecting federal prosecutors, says he no longer wants the job permanently.Apparently Griffin blames “the partisanship that has been exhibited by Sen. [Mark ] Pryor [D-Ark. ] and other senators on the Senate Judiciary Committee in the recent hearing” for his decision to bow out. I am sure his participation in the "caging" scheme discussed in my previous post has nothing to do with his decision not to undergo Senate Confirmation.
“I have made the decision not to let my name go forward to the Senate,” Griffin said Thursday evening.
Griffin said that he will remain in office as interim until a permanent replacment is found. Without the needed change in the Patriot Act there is no pressure on the administration to name a permanent replacement so that could give him a good long time to dig dirt on Hillary.
