Alito Faulted Government Ethics Office

The Alito drama keeps getting better!

WASHINGTON (AP) - As a Justice Department lawyer, Samuel Alito quarreled with the head of the government ethics office over proposed requirements on personal financial disclosures, according to documents released Monday.

Alito's 1987 letter was issued around the time the ethics office said his boss, Attorney General Edwin Meese III, had violated financial disclosure requirements over a $60,000 investment with a businessman who was tied to Wedtech, a Bronx, N.Y., defense contractor that was caught up in a wide-ranging federal investigation.

There was no suggestion that Alito, now nominated to be a Supreme Court justice, was aware of the ethics office's issues with Meese's disclosure.

Alito's letter to David H. Martin, director of the Office of Government Ethics, was among 120 documents from Alito's service as the deputy assistant attorney general in the Office of Legal Counsel from 1985 to 1987 that were released by the Justice Department in response to a Freedom of Information Act request from The Associated Press and other news organizations.

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http://www.lasvegassun.com/sunbin/stories/bw-scotus/2005/nov/28/112802664.html

these days. That good old neocon agenda has been cooking for awhile.