Wichita attorney Bradley Schlozman may be in deep trouble — and with good reason, if the allegations are true. The Justice Department is considering launching a grand jury investigation into whether Schlozman, a former U.S. attorney based in Kansas City, Mo., intentionally misled Congress when he gave conflicting statements about his role in filing a voter fraud lawsuit in Missouri, Associated Press reported. Scholzman also boasted about hiring conservative loyalists over better-qualified lawyers when he was acting assistant attorney for the Justice Department’s civil rights division.
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A Brownshirt boasting about hiring Brownshirts?? An attorney lying?? This is news?
Just play it safe, if a conservative is telling you something just assume he’s lying, because most likely he is.
Just add voter fraud (with the exception of Ann Coulter and Phill Kline) to the list of lies:
Obama is a Muslim
1) WMD
2) Nukes in Iraq
3) Trials cause terrorism
4) the free market works
5) tax cuts for the rich balance the budget
6) Iraq war will cost only $30 billion
7) $20 a barrel oil
etc. etc.
The Official Is the Lawyer Lying Test:
Is he breathing? If so, guilty!
If not, even better!
Didn’t know Scholzman was a Wichitan. He literally defines the combined noun “partisan Right-Wing scumbag.”
Josh Marshall at Talking Points Memo has lots, and lots, and lots of stuff regarding Scholzman. Here’s just a bit of it from 2007.
“Bradley Schlozman, a former Justice Department official who was at the center of the U.S. attorneys scandal and is under investigation by the Departments inspector general for his alleged efforts to politicize the Civil Rights Division, has finally left his post at the Department.
After he left his position as the U.S. attorney in Kansas City this April, Schlozman moved to the Justice Department office that oversees all U.S. attorneys. Reached on his cell phone today, Schlozman confirmed that he’d left the Department last week, but refused to say anything more and then hung up.
That makes Schlozman the latest in a long line of Department officials to leave in the wake of the firings scandal, including former White House liaison Monica Goodling, chief of staff Kyle Sampson, Acting Associate Attorney General William Mercer, Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty, and his chief of staff Michael Elston.
Before being tapped as the U.S. attorney for Kansas City in March of 2006 (after his predecessor Todd Graves was abruptly fired), Schlozman oversaw the voting rights section of the Civil Rights Division with an iron hand. Former employees say that, in tandem with Hans von Spakovsky, Schlozman gutted the voting rights division’s efforts to protect African-American voters and made sure that the group did not oppose voter ID laws. The two also punished lawyers and other employees who did not toe the line, former employees say, sometimes changing performance evaluations to add negative comments.
Schlozman has further been accused of politicizing the hiring at the Civil Rights Division, famously commenting that he was replacing Democratic hires with “good Americans.” It’s this activity which the Department’s joint internal investigation, led by the inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility, is probing.”
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2007/08/schlozman_leaves_justice_depar.php#more
Given his utter lack of shame at misusing the DOJ for partisan–and racist–ends, it’s fair to say that Scholzman gives “Good Germans” everywhere a bad name. You’re scum, Mr. Scholzman. And if your family is here in Wichita, I hope they’re reading that you’re scum.
As I said on another thread, Scumbag Scholzman deserves a long, long spell in prison for his treasonous acts against the Constitution. Right next door to Bush and Cheney.
Where is Schloz Man now? What firm does he wowrk for? Does he actually live and work in Wichita? If so, he’s a good prospect for an Eagle editorial board.
A lawyer lying?
heheheheh. With all due respect to Vaughn Tolle, who is a good and honest man, and who is also greatly missed here…
It reminds me of that dumb insurance commercial where the guy says “humans behaving humanly?” or some such.
heheheheh. I guess lying is just “lawyers behaving lawyerly”.
For a profession sworn to justice and the truth, how come so many have just a passing acquaintance with both?
Schlozman is so screwed.
He bought into Shrub’s Reign of Error and expected Kansas’ Republic Party to be his safety net.
It’s sometimes a dog-eat-dog world in politics, and the Republic Party is the party of dogs.
Schlozman will end up wiping down cars at Joe’s Car Wash on his halfway house work/release program in a few years.
Be sure to remember to tip him well.
They just keep coming with this administration, don’t they.
It’s like the brilliant comic Lewis Black says, “I read the newspaper and I think to myself, ‘I can make that funny.’ By the time I get to deliver the joke, five other scandals have happened. I can’t keep up with this people.”
But it all makes sense. It all fits a pattern.
You can’t be Worst. President. Ever. if you don’t surround yourself with the Worst. People. Ever.
Sorry, MonkeyHawk.
Bush still has the pardon. Scooter Libby never saw the inside of jail cell and neither will any of the others.
Money can’t buy everything it’s true, but it can still buy your way out of jail, especially if your crime implicates top government officials willing to do whatever it takes to achieve their ends.
Phil Kline needs to hire this guy; they are a perfect match!
Not necessarily capn. Bush can’t pardon the ‘late ones’ without coming out and giving reasons. I suspect there will be some scapegoats for this administration - unfortunately probably underlings.
Phillip Brownlee, the Wichita Eagle mouthpiece for the Democratic Party.
I keep forgetting.
Conservatives never lie.
The so called “Libs” are smearing them.
Denial can be an ugly thing.
BTH It is always the underlings that get screwed.
How many officers were busted/imprisoned in the Abba Dabba Honeymoon jail fiasco? Mostly enlisted folks.
As usual.
go to hinklelaw.com….look under ‘attorneys’ tab….whalla….Schlozman….and it gives his email address.
What kind of sound judgment does Hinkle Elkouri have if they are willing to hire the notorious Schlozman? Seriously. The hired a guy who OBVIOUSLY lied under oath. Has anyone watched youtube.com on this guy? Sen. Patrick Leahy ripped him a new asshole.
Plus, Schlozman has the voice of a weasel….check it out.
He works at Hinkle Elkouri? Lives in Wichita? Really. You’re kidding. Has Congress hauled his large rear end before a hearing yet? I’m surprised that a respected firm like Hinkle Elkouri would hire him. But, then again, several of their best attorneys couldn’t stand the environment there, left, and started their own firms, and, I presume, brought some of their clients with them.
The irony is that this guy will benefit from the very due process that he, his cronies, and their “superiors” have worked so diligently to deny to so many others. If you’re a loyal Bushie and you lie to Congress under oath, you are an ALLEGED perjurer. If you are CONVICTED of lying to Congress under oath, you get a Presidential pardon because those darn activist judges meted out too severe a punishment. If you omit, manipulate, or manufacture intelligence to support Bush’s war, or stand in front of the press and shill for the Bush Administration and their lies, you get your book published. If you steal millions of dollars from the United States taxpayers providing obscenely overpriced and incompetent “services” to men and women in uniform, you get your no-bid contract extended. Or, if you are an oil-rich Saudi or are related to the man behind the 9/11 attacks, you get a free plane ride home on September 13th.
BUT, if you are some marginally-literate Afghan farmer who gets scooped up by the “coalition” forces because somebody somewhere mentioned the words “al Qaeda” in the same sentence as your name, you get to spend year after year getting waterboarded in Cuba with no hope of due process.
Yup, sounds like exactly what the Framers had in mind…
After nearly eight years of this, you’d think Bushco would run out of people willing to fall on that particular by-now-getting-awfully-dull sword. I’ll bet that in another year, the line of former employees willing to testify will stretch from Washington almost to here, looping around every publishing company in New York. Scottie set the precedent.
Of course the architects of this administration will have retired to somewhere that doesn’t have an extradition treaty.
Jed,
Indeed. Last I heard, Bushco’s soft landing was scheduled for Paraguay.
Ralphie,
That shit is AWESOME.
http://www.hinklaw.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=113&Itemid=130
But what’s REALLY funny in all this is that even if Schlozman DID lie under oath, he at least was able to get a job. Not so for former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, or at least, not until recently.
“Former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who was forced from his job amid a controversy over the firings of federal prosecutors, has been hired to provide assistance to a special master on a patent case.
Gonzales will help former U.S. District Judge Layn R. Phillips oversee settlement talks in the case of a Texas company which claims banks such as Wells Fargo & Co., Citigroup Inc.’s Citibank and Bank of America Corp. are violating its patents for taking and transmitting digital images of checks.
Phillips, in an order signed yesterday, said he needed Gonzales’s help because of the number of parties in the case and the “overall complexity of this litigation.”
. . . Special masters are hired in patent cases to help district judges with complex issues. In this case, Phillips was hired to handle settlement talks between DataTreasury Corp. and the banks.”
Here’s a comment I saw on the TPM thread that helped me to understand how far the mighty Gonzo truly has fallen.
“Holy shit. i mean, not to underscore the massivity of this demotion, but I have been practicing law 13 years, and I could be an assistant to a Special Master, which is sort of like being assistant to a glorified magistrate judge.
How do I know this?
A former colleague of mine was hired as an assistant to a Special master two years ago in a fairly significant patent case out of the District of Delaware.
And she was two years my junior.
I graduated from law school in 1995. She graduated in 1997.
Do you have any idea what assistants to Special Masters get paid? Seriously, if it is $110,000, I would be shocked.
This is simply unbelievably humiliating for Gonzalez.
I am simply stunned.
He must have needed work badly, to pay his mortgage etc., because this is like being Vice President of Chase Manhattan, and then taking a job as a branch manager. In Topeka.”
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/06/gonzales_gets_a_job.php
CF,
Paraguay?? You mean where all those Nazi war criminals fled when Peron died? He’ll be in great company there!
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