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Tim Griffin, the U.S. Attorney for Arkansas who was White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove’s former adviser, is resigning from his federal prosecutor position effective Friday, June 1, 2007.

Details of Griffin’s politically-charged appointment prompted bipartisan calls in Congress for U.S. Attorney General Gonzales to resign.

That’s because Griffin ‘replaced’ popular and well-respected U.S. Attorney ‘Bud Cummins who was on the list of U.S. Attorneys fired by Gonzales and his DOJ aides on December 7, 2006. The unspoken reasoning behind Cummins’ termination? To make way for a FOK (that’s ‘Friend of Karl’s’).

Griffin worked for the Republican National Commitee as the group’s Research Director and Deputy Communications Director during the Bush-Cheney 2004 presidential campaign, and worked as Deputy Research Director for the group during the 2000 presidential campaign.

He graduated from Tulane Law School in New Orleans , Louisiana. As recently as today, the school’s Alumni Affairs division listed Griffin’s directory iinformation on the web for all the world to see as follows (including his non-work e-mail address: griffinjag@earthlink.net and home phone number (inset, below):

The Wall Street Journal has put together a terrific ‘Who’s Who’ list of the U.S. Attorneys who were terminated, the key Justice Department officials, and White House officials involved in the ongoing investigation.

Every player has a brief bio and picture.  You can read it here.