tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/13/2009
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It sounds like Sen. Pat Leahy isn't too happy about the US Attorney's office's decision not to prosecute Bradley Schlozman for making false statements to Leahy's Judiciary committee. In a speech on the Senate floor this morning, Leahy left no doubt that he disagrees with the US Attorney's ...
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com - 1/13/2009
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Pat Leahy, the chair of the Senate Judiciary
committee, just put out the following statement on the
DOJ report into politicized hiring: Today's report confirms some of our worst fears about the Bush administration's political corruption of the Justice ...
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Talking Points Memo | Leahy On Report: Schlozman Lied To Me
eschatonblog.com - 1/16/2009
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eschatonblog.com —
Keep on running! WASHINGTON (AP) — If confirmed
as attorney general, Eric Holder says he'll review the
decision not to prosecute a former Justice Department official for making false statements to Congress. An inspector general report this week ...
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DoJ IG Report Buried, Now Released, Finds Schlozman Broke the Law, Lied About it to Congress
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... But Leahy reserved his most pointed outrage for comments made this morning on the floor of the Senate describing what happened as "a heinous crime": ...
DOJ Shocker: Civil Rights Division Head Broke the Law
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... It's possible that Congress could refer the case back the DC USA, having ample grounds, but the USA would then have to overturn its decision not to prosecute--a decision that was apparently made, according to what TPMMuckraker has been able to determine, without any consultation with the Senators who were lied to. This makes one of them, Judicary Chair Leahy, spitting mad: ...
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Talking Points Memo | Why No Charges For Schlozman?
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/13/2009 — Given that the DOJ Inspector General's report found that Bradley Schlozman broke the law in making politicized hiring decisions, and lied about it to Congress, why and how did the US Attorney's office make the decision to decline to bring criminal ...
Schloz Broke Law, But Won't Face Criminal Charges
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/13/2009 — In case you were wondering about why the Schlozman report is dated July 2 2008 but was only released today, see this excerpt from page one:
We referred the findings from our investigation to the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia ...
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tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/14/2009 — Abu Zubaydah was: A) A high-ranking Al Qaeda operative who largely confounded U.S. interrogators with his literary and tactical genius until they submitted him to waterboarding and other forms of torture. After that, he provided key information that ...
Schloz: Voting Section Attorneys Are "Mold Spores"
tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com 1/13/2009 — Here's another great Schlozman line from the report :
For example, in an e-mail on July 15, 2003, to a former colleague, Schlozman wrote, "I too get to work with mold spores, but here in Civil Rights, we call them Voting Section attorneys."
As ...
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