Bush appointee saw Justice lawyers as 'commies,' 'crazy libs,'

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report says

By David G. Savage
6:22 PM PST, January 13, 2009

Reporting from Washington -- To Bradley Schlozman, they were "mold spores," "commies" and "crazy libs."

He was referring to the career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights and voting rights divisions. From 2003 to 2006, Schlozman was a Bush appointee who supervised them. Along with several others, he came to symbolize the mid-level political appointees who brought a hard-edged ideology to the day-to-day workings of the Justice Department.

"My tentative plans are to gerrymander all of those crazy libs right out of the section," he said in an e-mail in 2003. "I too get to work with mold spores, but here in Civil Rights, we call them Voting Section attorneys," he confided to another friend.

He hoped to get rid of the "Democrats" and "liberals" because they were "disloyal" and replace them with "real Americans" and "right-thinking Americans."

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-justice14-2009jan14,0,3129787.story

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1. Bush priorities in a nutshell

Roger Clemens apparently lied about taking steroids before a Senate committee. Prosecuted.

Brad Schlozman lied to a Senate committee about corrupting the Department of Justice. Scot-free.

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2. Jerks in MO are going away.

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3. Perfect example of the kind

of ignoramus's that were controlling our country ... very sad but thank God we will be rid of them in less than a week.

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4. Just remember, as KO pointed out: When Monica Goodling lawyered up, she hired one of those geeks.