Two days before Attorney General Jeff Sessions ordered dozens of the country's top federal prosecutors to clean out their desks, he gave those political appointees a pep talk during a conference call. The seemingly abrupt about-face on Friday left the affected US attorneys scrambling to brief the people left behind and say goodbye to colleagues. Sessions himself was asked to resign as a US attorney in a similar purge by Attorney General Janet Reno in 1993. John W. Vaudreuil, US attorney for the Western District of Wisconsin, became an assistant US attorney in that office in 1980. "The attorney general did not mention on that call, 'Stay tuned for changes,"' Neronha said.

Source: New Zealand Herald March 13, 2017 00:11 UTC