New information this MSNBC story about Rovian emails:

“Earlier Thursday, Rove said the removal of prosecutors was based entirely on policy and personnel matters at the Justice Department.

In an appearance Thursday morning at Troy University in Troy, Ala., Rove said the dismissals were no different than ones in the Clinton administration, and he questioned why the Bush administration’s action is drawing “super-heated rhetoric” while the dismissals during President Clinton’s terms did not.

“In each of these instances a decision was made at the Department of Justice on the basis of policy and personnel,” Rove told students at a journalism seminar.

“We’re at a point where people want to play politics with it. That’s fine,” he said. “I’d simply ask everybody who’s playing politics with this be asked to comment about the removal of 123 U.S. attorneys during the previous administration and see if they had the same super-heated political rhetoric.”

The 123 included 93 Republican appointees that the Democrat Clinton replaced when he began his first term, which is common in such a change of command. Rove did not give any details on who the other 30 were.”

Since there are only 94 on duty at any one time, and 93 were canned by Clinton at the beginning of his reign, just when do you think the other 30 or so were fired?

They’re about to find out why Rove is paid the big bucks.