Report critical of former Justice Dept. official { Bradley Schlozman }

AP via SFGate ^ | 1/13/9 | DEVLIN BARRETT, Associated Press Writer

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Investigators say a former top Justice Department official made false statements to Congress and violated federal law in overseeing the agency's civil rights division.

The accusations against Bradley Schlozman, the former acting head of the civil rights division, are included in a new report by the department's inspector general, Glenn Fine.

Tuesday's report is the latest of several inquiries that found senior Justice Department officials violated civil service laws under the tenure of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

Gonzales has denied knowledge of the conduct by his deputies, but the series of reports paints a disturbing portrait of the nation's top law enforcement agency being pulled in a sharply political direction during the Bush administration.

The report says Schlozman politicized and mistreated his staff and tried to punish agency employees he believed were too liberal.

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Stand by for Stalinist purges and re-indoctrination camps.

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Elections have consequences.

[aruanan]

Some people have talked about a Constitution Party. What we really need is a Declaration Party so that people will read the Declaration of Independence and realize why we fought a revolution and how the government now is far more repressive and confiscatory than anything visited on the colonists by King George. Of course, we’ve had no Great Awakening to temper mens’ souls first.