Schlozman case gets even more curious

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Schlozman case gets even more curious

If you're a regular reader, you know that for the last three weeks TPMmuckraker's Paul Kiel has been telling you the story of Bradley Schlozman. He was the senior official at the DOJ's Civil Rights Divisions, who worked on making the country safe for the return of Voter IDs, de facto poll taxes, vote roll purges and other gimmicks to crack down on minority voting.

Then Schlozman became a Patriot Act-appointed US Attorney in Kansas City where he rushed a series of vote fraud indictments in time for the 2006 mid-term election. Only a couple weeks ago he returned to Main Justice to help run the Executive Office of United States Attorneys.

Most interesting though was Paul's April 24th report on charges that Schlozman screened DOJ Civil Rights division job applicants to make sure they were loyal Republicans. Paul was the first to report these charges based on an interview with former Civil Rights Division line attorney Ty Clevenger, who recounted how Schlozman had denied an interview to a job applicant because his GOP ideological credentials weren't strong enough.

Those, you'll remember, are the same charges Monica Goodling is now supposedly being investigated on by an internal DOJ investigation.

- Josh Marshall http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com

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