J. Timothy Griffin. Remember when he said he no longer wanted the job permanently? Well sure. It wasn't a permanent job and Griffin didn't need to go through confirmation hearings anyways.

Heeee's back ... on the back pages of the news again. It looks like J. Timothy Griffin doctored the truth on his resume. Ouch.

On NBC’s “Meet the Press” last Sunday, Sen. Orrin Hatch of Utah, a senior Republican on the Senate Judiciary Committee, hailed Griffin as “a person with prosecutorial experience who the attorney – who the U.S. Attorney who was going to be removed said was his right-hand man and one of the best prosecutors he had.”

In an e-mail to me, however, Cummins disputed Hatch’s characterization of the letter.

“I don’t see here where I referred to him as my ‘right arm,’” Cummins said. “I don’t know where they are getting that. Tim [Griffin] worked hard and did a good job organizing the launch of what became a very successful PSN [Project Safe Neighborhoods] program. But the great success was at least equally due, if not a great deal more, to the efforts of virtually every prosecutor in the office after his departure.”

Much has been said about Orrin Hatch's performance on "Meet the Press." I think Hatch is just plain scared of having to answer similar questions about the attorney switch in Utah.  ¶ 8:35 PM