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Wednesday, May 7, 2008

Small Government Conservative Watch, II

FBI FANS OUT AGAINST BUSH ADMINISTRATION 'SPECIAL COUNSEL'

Feds move in. (But will Scott Bloch call the ACLU?):

Agents fanned out yesterday morning in the agency's building on M Street, where they sequestered Office of Special Counsel chief Scott J. Bloch for questioning, served grand-jury subpoenas on 17 employees and shut down access to computer networks in a search lasting more than five hours.

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Retired FBI agents and former prosecutors called the raid an unusual, if not unprecedented, intrusion on the work of a federal agency.

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During the probe, Bloch hired the technology service Geeks on Call to erase his computer hard drive and those of two aides, giving rise to new allegations that he was obstructing justice.

- WaPo

Separately, last week George Bush took the recommendation of internal investigators and asked Laurita Doan to step down.

It took over a year (and a Democratic win in the '06 bi-election).

Sadly, Doan looks like someone who can bring spirit and energy to Administrative positions, but who got carried away by the Rovian environment created by punch-drunk Conservatism under Bush and the GOP ... (here and here).