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Saturday, March 31, 2007

Former DoJ Official: Department Used to "Skew" Elections

By Paul Kiel - March 30, 2007, 12:40 PM

Straight from the horse's mouth.

Joseph D. Rich was chief of the voting section in the Justice Department's civil right division from 1999 to 2005. Today he penned an Op-Ed in The Los Angeles Times, and he didnt' mince words:

Over the last six years, this Justice Department has ignored the advice of its staff and skewed aspects of law enforcement in ways that clearly were intended to influence the outcome of elections.

( read the whole thing)

And you'll understand why I loved it when I overheard this statement:

"This democracy is so fucked."

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