Bradley Schlozman: Subject of Grand Jury Referral. And then there's ... Judiciary Hearing will Reprise Plame Affair

The Wall Street Journal always makes fun reading... especially if one enjoys the schizophrenic jolt of skipping between the Opinion Editorial pages and the "news." So what news did yesterday's WSJ bring? Seems that Bradley Schlozman, the interim U.A. attorney in charge of the Kansas City, Missouri office, a one-year that overlapped the 2006 elections, may be questioned again, in terms of his "testimony" during the 2007 investigations into the U.S. Attorney Scandal. As Evan Perez's reports in his 06-16-08 article,Investigation Into U.S. Attorney Scandal Advances:

The grand-jury referral, the first time the probe has moved beyond the investigative phase, relates to allegations of political meddling in the Justice Department's civil-rights division, these people say. Specifically, it focuses on possible perjury by Bradley Schlozman,

You may all remember Mr. Schlozman, as he was the attorney who was promoted after the DOJ "asked his predecessor, Todd P. Graves, to resign. Mr. Graves was among several U.S. attorneys who had shown reluctance to bring vote-fraud-related cases." But his replacement Schlozman famously showed none of that reluctance and seemingly was eager to bring the lawsuit against ACORN which was registering Democratic voters right before the 2006 elections. Later in Congressional hearings, Schlozman testified that he had been pressured by White House officials. The appointment of Schlozman has often been exhibit B or C in allegations that the Bush Administration politicized the Justice Department, especially the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division. In other Wall Street Journal news, Evan Perez also reported yesterday in his A-2 blurb Judiciary Hearing Will Reprise Plame Affair, that Michigan Rep John Conyers called for the hearings because in McClellan's book, McClellan suggests that "senior White House officials may have obstructed justice." Geese... these days you have to write a book and confess to crimes before any one seriously considers the crimes to have been committed. Wow. McClellan wrote a book and said crimes happened: Guess it's to call for an "investigation." Sigh.