Conyers to Mukasey: Why Ban Muckraker?

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http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/2008/01/mukasey.php

Next week, Michael Mukasey will appear before the House Judiciary Committee for take two of his grim performance yesterday.

Chairman John Conyers (D-MI), naturally, has a whole host of questions. So in a letter to Mukasey today, he queried the attorney general on weighty topics ranging from torture to voter suppression to selective prosecution to the most weighty of all:

The website TPMMuckraker, which played an important role in providing information to the public concerning the U.S. Attorney scandal, revealed that it has recently been removed from DOJ’s press release email distribution list. Who made this decision and why, and was there a change in policy in press release distribution after you became Attorney General?

Perhaps Rep. Conyers will have better luck getting a response than we have. But just in case, we've asked the Department's Office of Public Affairs again for an explanation.

The full letter is below.