The Justice Department's Truthiness Problem-By Scott Horton (Harper's Magazine) - The Diigo Meta page

• 03 Sep 08
  

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  • Schlozman was the man in charge of the Justice Department’s voting rights policy for key periods, then went into the field to serve as U.S. Attorney in Kansas City, when the U.S. attorney there refused his directions to launch a series of bogus lawsuits.
  • Alabama-born Spakovsky has long been a key G.O.P. vote suppression expert
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  • • For the Bush Justice Department, however, it’s just another day, hardly any different from those that preceded or will follow it.
    • Still the real focus of inquiries into the scandal is not on the Justice Department at all, but rather its former political puppetmaster, Karl Rove.
    • On the other hand, Griffin had great skills in partisan trench warfare, and was often identified as a key expert in the craft of “voter caging,” a legally dubious technique used by Rove to suppress minority voter turnout in battleground states.
    • the prevailing view inside of Justice today is different. It holds that there’s nothing wrong with telling fibs to Congress—it’s all part of the game.

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