Justice Dept interfered in cross-burning, drug tampering cases


	Justice Dept interfered in cross-burning, drug tampering cases

jklugman

5-12-2007 7:27 PM

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justice-dept, tom graves, missouri, bradley schlozman, corruption, incompetence

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/2c50f295-b085-48e6-8233-8c309eba9793/AB448A7A-B470-4552-B31E-975ECDC11171/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000052" href="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000052" style="font-size: 11px;">harpers.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000052"><P>A great deal more information is now emerging about the struggles between former Kansas City U.S. Attorney Tom Graves and
                                       main Justice, all of which leaves one puzzling about which side of the law enforcement divide is occupied by main Justice.
                                       It seems Graves had constant difficulties with the Civil Rights Division–Graves wanted to prosecute a cross-burning case (exactly
                                       the sort of thing that the Civil Rights Division was involved in, back in the old days when its concern was protecting, instead
                                       of suppressing, civil rights), but main Justice objected. Kansas City’s <A href="http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2007/5/11/19610/1307">KMBC TV reports:</A></P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://harpers.org/archive/2007/05/hbc-90000052">Graves said he also had trouble over Robert
                                          Courtney, a local pharmacist who was convicted diluting Cancer drugs.  Graves said he wanted to sieze $10 million dollars
                                          from Courtney and give it to the victims. And when Washington balked, he said “I got angry.”  Telling them, “I am not the
                                          US Attorney for Washington, I am the US Attorney for western Missouri.”</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/AB448A7A-B470-4552-B31E-975ECDC11171/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>