OR favor...

Recently there's been a lot of talk about how people - especially federal prosecutors - serve at the pleasure of the president. Jon Stewart had a particularly biting riff on it, culminating in a judgment on what this current president seems to find pleasurable, judging by the people who serve...

But the fact is simple, as Ron Hutcheson and Marisa Taylor say at Truthout: though they are political appointees, they're supposed to follow the evidence wherever it leads, without fear or favor.

Even John Ashcroft knew that much: "You have to leave politics at the door to do this job properly."