From Newsweek:
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A last-minute lobbying push by Attorney General Alberto Gonzales last week failed to dislodge a senator’s “hold” on the nominee to take over the Justice Department’s Criminal Division, leaving what some department officials say is a decision-making void during a critical period in major international terror investigations.
Gonzales aides had been counting on Alice Fisher, President George W. Bush’s pick to head the Criminal Division, getting confirmed before the Senate went out of town last week for summer recess. But Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin rebuffed a personal plea from the attorney general last Friday night to permit a vote on Fisher’s confirmation. His reason: continued questions about what Fisher knew regarding FBI complaints about allegedly abusive interrogation techniques by the U.S. military at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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So the Bushies are accusing Levin of playing politics, when he's just trying to keep a possible torture monger out of the so-called "Justice" Department.
Who's really playing politics here?
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