Reply #20: "They aren't installing any more dirty trickster, character assassins for the next two years"

[L. Coyote]

Hullabaloo
http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/04/running-out-of-choices-by-digby-is-this.html

Right:

What an excellent idea. De-politicize the Justice Department with one of the guys who ran the Clinton witch hunt. I guess the Republicans think it's still 2001 and Orrin Hatch is still Chairman of the Judiciary Committee. They can't seem to grasp their changed circumstances.

Here's an article from the NY Times

 
        The first meeting of the Arkansas Project took place in 1994 at Olson's 
Washington law office and was attended by Olson, Stephen Boynton, Dave Henderson 
and others from the American Spectator and other Scaife-funded organizations, 
according to reporting by Jonathan Broder and Joe Conason ...

... the extravagant, "tax-exempt" lifestyle of American Spectator editor R. Emmett 
Tyrrell, a third of whose $598,000 McLean, Va., home was owned by the nonprofit foundation 
... Olson was among those "frequent visitors" -- a list of whom reads like a who's who of anti-Clinton journalists.

... Olson amended his response in a letter he sent to Leahy ... "I do recall meetings, 
which I now realize must have been in the summer of 1997 in my office regarding allegations 
regarding what became known as the 'Arkansas Project.'" ... 

the American Spectator's attorney during the same period ... also confirms that he did, 
in fact, convene a meeting about the Arkansas Project in his office prior to 1998. Of the 
1994 meeting, he writes, "I do not recall the meeting described." Olson adds, "I certainly 
was not involved in any such meeting at which a topic was using Scaife funds and the American 
Spectator to 'mount a series of probes into the Clintons and their alleged crimes in Arkansas.'"

... their political hitmen are going to have to take a rest ... They aren't installing any more dirty trickster, character assassins for the next two years. Nah guh happ'n.