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Born at the Crest of the Empire

Tuesday, January 22, 2008

More to come on the Attorneys' scandal?

Take just a minute to read what The Hill is reporting.
Two inquiries by the House and Senate ethics committees are examining whether several congressional Republicans, including one running for the Senate this year, improperly interfered with investigations.....

Investigators from these offices (OIG, OPR) have been questioning whether senior officials lied to Congress, violated the criminal provisions in the Hatch Act, tampered with witnesses preparing to testify to Congress, obstructed justice, took improper political considerations into account during the hiring and firing of U.S. attorneys and created widespread problems in the department’s Civil Rights Division, according to several people familiar with the investigation.

The actual firings may be far enough behind us that they lack political whammo, but when you start talking perjury, obstruction of justice, and witness tampering among elected and appointed officials, the zazz quickly comes back.

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