IS HE LIVING IN TOPSY-TURVY WORLD?
Boehner: DOJ Politicized ... In Favor of Dems!
By Zachary Roth - October 31, 2008, 3:41PM
At last, a high-ranking Republican has admitted what many Democrats and independent observers have maintained since the scandal over the US Attorney firings -- that, under President Bush, the Department of Justice has been inappropriately politicized.
But according to John Boehner, the House GOP leader, that politicization was actually carried out ... by Democrats.
Boehner today released a letter to Attorney General Michael Mukasey, in which he complained about the department's decision no longer to include federal prosecutors in its teams of election observers, as it has done in previous years.
He also cited recent reports that some top officials in the department's voting-rights section had contributed to Barack Obama's campaign.
Writes Boehner:
Frankly, the real motive behind the Department's decision is undeniably suspect given that Obama partisans in key positions at the Department of Justice may well have played a pivotal role in making it.
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