Bush's Justice Department nominee is a three-fer [View All]

This bozo is 1. linked to Abramoff, 2. linked to the 2000 recount and 3. linked to the torture memos. It's as if Bush went out of his way to find the most objectionable person for this job.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-0507260159jul26,1,4669119.story?coll=chi-newsnationworld-hed

Bush nominee faces grilling on links to suspect lobbyist

By Andrew Zajac
Washington Bureau

WASHINGTON -- Timothy Flanigan, President Bush's nominee to be deputy attorney general, has repeatedly found himself in pitched political and ideological battles, including the court fight over the disputed Florida recount in the 2000 presidential election and the crafting of White House memos that justified torture of alleged terrorists.

His involvement with those memos while serving as deputy White House counsel following the Sept. 11 attacks almost certainly will draw questioning from the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is slated to hold a hearing on his nomination Tuesday afternoon.

But Flanigan's resume contains other entries that also may draw scrutiny, particularly from committee Democrats.

In his current position as senior vice president and general counsel of Tyco International, Flanigan oversaw the work of Jack Abramoff, a lobbyist who is the subject of at least two congressional investigations and a Justice Department inquiry and who is alleged to have bilked millions of dollars from six Indian tribes.