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Bush Campaign Veterans Make Electoral Comeback

By | 11.24.09 | 6:00 am

For a candidate making his first bid for office, Tim Griffin couldn’t be in better shape. One week after announcing his campaign against Rep. Vic Snyder (D-Ark.), the incumbent in Arkansas’s most Democratic-leaning district, Griffin had raised $130,000. A Public Policy Polling survey More…

HOLDER HEARING: Feinstein Brings Up Schlozman and OIG Report

By | 01.15.09 | 12:12 pm

Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) started her line of questioning with the recent report on the politicization of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division and asked Eric Holder his thoughts on it.

Holder replied that it’s “antithetical to everything the Justice Department stands for” and added that this wasn’t something he’d allow if More…

Report: Schlozman Broke Federal Law; Lied to Congress

By | 01.13.09 | 11:12 am

An internal Department of Justice report on the politicization of the Civil Rights Division — one of the last of six investigations looking into the politicization of the agency — has found that Bradley Schlozman, a central character in the U.S. attorney firing scandal, broke federal law in considering “political More…