FBI chief, lawmakers clash over 2006 raid on Jefferson's office

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Source: The Times-Picayune

by Bruce Alpert, The Times-Picayune
Thursday April 24, 2008, 8:26 AM

WASHINGTON -- FBI Director Robert Mueller Wednesday defended the controversial 2006 raid of Rep. William Jefferson's congressional office after one House member suggested it wasn't necessary and another likened it to an illegal break-in.

The raid, the first ever of a sitting member's office, occurred May 20-21, 2006 ... Eventually, an appellate court declared the raid unconstitutional ...

"Can every member of the Congress and the United States Senate assume that we could still get broken into like Jefferson until this is resolved?" Chairman John Conyers, D-Mich., asked Mueller during a contentious Judiciary Committee hearing Wednesday ...

Rep. Louie Gohmert, R-Texas, a former judge, asked Mueller whether the search was needed to bring charges against Jefferson. Hadn't the Justice Department before the search been assured that it could get copies of the documents it wanted from Jefferson's office? Gohmert asked Mueller ...



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[LiberalFighter]

1. Power goes to Mueller's head.

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2. how else to make it look non-partisan, gotta throw a D in

I believe there are bad apple D's out there, Hillary comes to mind, a right winger with a D after her name, same as Bill.