Politically motivated prosecutor firings obscured by lies

Link Another case of lying and stupidity on the part of the Bush administration. Of course, Bush has the prerogative to get rid of the prosecutors he doesn't like. But in an attempt to hide the political nature of the firings, the administration decided to bad mouth some reasonably good prosecutors by saying the firings were performance based.

Apparently Reagan and Clinton conducted purges of all of the justice prosecutors at the start of their terms. W apparently did the same, but had second thoughts about these eight. Doesn't this mean he and/or his administration has poor judgment?

Updated 3/15
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