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.
As we all recall, this guy was the biggest hack yet – a voter fraud, minority intimidating, guy who fired women because they were … women. As the bottom scum slithers out of Washington, one wonders who will be left to take responsibility for anything. Alberto Gonzales, so long as he holds his office, is all they need to render the Justice Department inoperative. And the system gives President Bush the power to fill in the replacements, so he can stall things forever. I doubt he even knows anyone who could be effective in pulling the DOJ out of the sewer. But if he did know such a person, he wouldn’t appoint him. So we’re left to clamor for justice, with no justice department.
Sigh…
Oh! Oh! Oh! He’s leaving/left because of the importance of his family, right? Please say I’m right!! Oh, it’s why they all leave. The family. Just like all the mob guys are family men. Right!? Right?!
…and on Justice weeps.