Report: Schlozman Broke The Law, Then Tried To Hide It From Senate (flag)
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com — Here's the key excerpt, finding that Schlozman broke the law by considering political affiliations in making hiring decisions, and made false statement about it to the Senate: The evidence in our investigation showed that Schlozman, first as a Deputy Assistant Attorney General and ...
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New Report Indicates More Impropriety at the Ashcroft and Gonzales Justice Department
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... Much of today’s report concerns the conduct of former senior Civil Rights Division official Bradley Schlozman.  According to news reports, the Inspector General’s findings contain ample evidence that Schlozman both violated the ...

New Report Slams Former DOJ Official For Politicized Hiring
ACSBlog: The Blog of the American Constitution Society — ... Much of today’s report concerns the conduct of former senior Civil Rights Division official Bradley Schlozman.  According to news reports, the Inspector General’s findings contain ample evidence that Schlozman both violated the ...

Civil Wrongs in the Bush DOJ
Firedoglake — ... The report concludes that not only did he illegally politicize his division, he lied to congress about it Schlozman discusses his ethics with a congressional committee The evidence in our ...

Clinton Lawyer On Bush's Exec Privilege Claim: "There's Only One President At A Time"
Democratic Underground Latest Breaking News — ... that executive privilege can be asserted retroactively. "Remember what Obama kept saying during the transition: 'There's only one president at a time?'" asked Eggleston. "This is one where I think a court's going to decide there's only one president at a time." Eggleston told TPMmuckraker last week that Obama's order seemed designed to help gain access to Bush White House documents and testimony that Congress has been seeking, including on the US Attorney firings matter. Read more: http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/01/repor...

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