The Washington Post took a closer look into the dismissal of former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves. A report from the Justice Department's inspector general found that one of the catalysts for Graves' dismissal was an episode involving his brother - U.S. Rep. Sam Graves, R-Tarkio - and the office of Sen. Kit Bond, R-Missouri. The specific occurrence recounted a call from one of Bond's aides to Todd Graves. The aide demanded that Todd Graves get Sam Graves' chief of staff at the time - Jeff Roe - fired. Todd Graves refused, to which the Post reported that "the aide angrily warned Graves that if he did not intervene on Bond's behalf -- against his brother's chief of staff -- the senator 'could no longer protect [his] job.'" The Post reported today that the caller - unnamed in a report released this week - was Jason Van Eaton, a longtime aide to Bond: But then he got caught in the crossfire between Bond's office and his brother's staff. It came to a head when the Bond aide demanded in October 2004 that Todd Graves persuade his brother to fire Jeff Roe, then his chief of staff. Although the report does not identify the caller, multiple sources told The Washington Post it was Roe's archrival, Jason Van Eaton, the chief of staff for Bond's Missouri office. Van Eaton and Roe, a longtime Republican political operative, are roughly the same age, and each sought an influential reputation, the sources said. Their bosses worked well together, but ...
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