Are Trojan horse ‘loyal Bushies’ at DOJ campaigning against Obama?
When a new administration takes power in Washington, there are always holdovers who cling to the ship of state like lampreys, taking little bites out of the electoral victor who displaced their boss. It was true at the end of the Clinton administration, certainly. It’s proving true once again. Given the heavy politicization of the Justice Department under President Bush and his man Alberto Gonzales, you should be suspicious any time you read a news story alleging that Obama’s ‘political appointees’ are overruling non-partisan career staff at DOJ. But it doesn’t seem that any skepticism was applied to such claims by the journalists at the Washington Times and Fox News who ran with a leak accusing the President’s hand-picked staff at the Justice Department of overruling career attorneys who sought to prosecute a voter intimidation case from November 2008. The allegations have heavy racial overtones and are already being used to reinforce tropes on the far right fringe that President Obam
