Real Life "You Can't Handle the Truth" Guy Fired!

I haven't written about the outrageous firing of US attorneys because I didn't really have anything new to say that wasn't covered by the New York Times, the Washington Post or the Los Angeles Times.

In case you need the back story, here goes: in the last year the Justice Department has starting firing a number of very effective, well-trained, successful federal attorneys despite their superb work evaluations and prosecution records. They include Carol Lam of San Diego, John McKay of Seattle, David Iglesias of New Mexico, Daniel Bogden of Nevada and Paul Charlton of Arizona. What do they all have in common? Each one prosecuted a Republican in office (e.g. Randy "Duke Cunningham") or a Republican fundraiser/ally.

Now here's where it gets hilarious. Duke Cunningham was supposedly the inspiration for the Tom Cruise character in "Top Gun." Now, in today's Washington Post, buried at the end of another very good article on the attorneys, there is this nugget: one of the aforementioned attorneys, David Iglesias, was the defense lawyer in a famous Navy hazing case that inspired the Tom Cruise character in "A few Good Men."

So what appears to be another shady Republican conspiracy, turns out to be just another reason to not inspire Tom Cruise.