After blaming another Justice Department lawyer for his own iffy calls, Bradley Schlozman might change the testimony he gave before the Senate Judiciary Committee on June 5 (Bloomberg).
Committee members kept asking why Schlozman launched a small-scale case involving voter-registration fraud (in a Republican battleground state) just days before the November 2006 election, despite a Justice Department policy that urges the opposite. Schlozman kept answering that a lawyer in Justice's Public Integrity section said it was okay. At some points, Schlozman said that the lawyer directed him to do it (see testimony).
Public Integrity lawyers weren't happy about that testimony: hence, the forthcoming edits. The hearing was one of a series that the Judiciary Committee has held since the unprecedented firing of nine U.S. Attorneys. The Committee's question: was the Justice Department used to promote personal political agendas?
Some Justice officials' testimony was dodgy, including Schlozman's, which only compelled the Committee to keep probing.
See BNP's U.S. Attorney scandal overview and Jon Stewart's take on various testimony (video).
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