Just after Brad Schlozman's "I don't recall" avalanche, former U.S. Attorney Todd Graves testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee yesterday. Graves seemed to answer questions candidly, which may be why Committee members were more cordial toward Graves than Schlozman.
Schlozman told the committee that he had seen no problem with filing a voter-registration-fraud suit in Missouri just before the November 2006 election--despite a written Justice Department policy that prosecutors should avoid bringing small-scale election-fraud suits just before an election. Missouri GOP officials ended up using the suit in campaign literature against a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate.
In contrast, Graves told the Committee that he would have waited until after the election to file the suit (Washington Post).
According to Graves, in early 2006, a Justice Department official asked Graves to resign as U.S. Attorney, saying the decision came from the highest levels of government. The reason: to give someone else a chance to serve. The someone turned out to be Schlozman.
The Daily Show's Jon Stewart said this about recent DoJ testimony: "Listening to their testimony, it's like the entire Department of Justice is taking a ( beep ) inside my head." (See video.)
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