Ignoring further evidence of misconduct, ABC's Greenburg limited U.S. attorney controversy to Bush admin.'s failure to be "forthcoming"

SUMMARY: While discussing the U.S. attorney firings on ABC's World News, Charles Gibson suggested that the administration did nothing wrong, given the president's authority to fire U.S. attorneys at will. Legal correspondent Jan Crawford Greenburg concurred, adding that the only "problem" is that "the White House hasn't been forthcoming with how this whole plan began." But both Gibson and Greenburg miss the central issues raised by this scandal, which involve allegations of unethical conduct by Republican members of Congress and charges that a former high-ranking Justice Department official violated federal law by knowingly allowing DOJ officials to give false information to Congress.

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