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Article: No boundaries The White House has ignored limits separating the political process from the Department of Justice.
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- Columbia Daily Tribune
- Article date:
- June 24, 2007
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WASHINGTON - The investigations into the Bush administration's
decision to fire nine U.S. attorneys have exposed how the
administration has eroded the firewall between partisan politics and
the Department of Justice and compromised the independence of the
nation's top law enforcement agency.
As early as 2002, administration policymakers, Republican
legislators and GOP party officials began injecting politics into
criminal investigations and civil and voting rights enforcement and
applying political litmus tests to judges and career lawyers at the
justice department.
A McClatchy Newspapers analysis of thousands of justice department
documents, congressional testimony and interviews with ...