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Updated by Jason: Here’s the video of Christie talking about his US Attorneys:

Blogger emptywheel has been on fire today. In one post, she points us to an astonishing speech by Chris Christie in which he admits to the politicization of the US Attorney’s office:

You know, we’re going to ferret out waste and fraud and abuse in the government. I think you know I’ll do that better than anybody. I’ve got a group of assistant U.S. attorneys sitting down in Newark still doing their job. But let me tell you, they are watching the newspapers. And after we win this election, I’m going to take a whole group of them to Trenton with me and put them in every one of the departments because they saw a lot of waste and abuse being investigated while we were in the U.S. Attorney’s office that didn’t rise to the level of a crime. So I told them, the good news is, when we get to Trenton we don’t have to worry about beyond a reasonable doubt anymore.

As emptywheel notes, it’s hard to say which of the four points is more disturbing: