a collaborative writing effort by roxy, standingup, cho, and aaron barlow
Crossposted atePluribus Media Community
As The New York Timespoints out, (subscription) United States Attorneys have been forced to try to create a voting fraud scandal when none existed.
But just beneath the surface of the multiple U.S. Attorney scandals lie hints and teasers of the Bush Administration's potentially more damaging politicization of the Justice Department. Indeed, The Civil Rights Division appears to be morphing into a tool to manipulate elections. Control seems to be held by a "shadow" Civil Rights Division - populated by ideologues and their fellow travelers -- which has usurped litigation decisions, the hiring process, training and the Division's traditional civil rights agenda.