I also asked her how this at all differed from the move in 1993 when he husband asked all 93 US Attorneys to resign.
“This is a great difference,” she said. “When a new president comes in, a new president gets to clean house. It is not done on case-by-case basis where you didn’t do something that some senator or member of Congress told you to do in terms of investigation into opponents. It is ‘Let’s start afresh.’ Every president has done that.
“This happening now with this administration is actually quite rare,” she went on. “There’s been some research done that concluded it’s hardly ever happens and it happened with so many people and it apparently was going to happen with more. We now are hearing stories that basially the White House wanted to change all the US Attorneys for political and personal reasons. I think this raises serious questions.”
And, from The Washington Post:
Although Bush and President Bill Clinton each dismissed nearly all U.S. attorneys upon taking office, legal experts and former prosecutors say the firing of a large number of prosecutors in the middle of a term appears to be unprecedented and threatens the independence of prosecutors.