On Election Eve, Miers Tried To Intervene With DOJ On Renzi Case

I can see this can o worms drip, drip, dripping...


E-Mails: On Election Eve, Miers Tried To Intervene With DOJ About Sensitive Renzi Case
By Justin Elliott - August 11, 2009, 7:02PM


It's just days before the mid-term elections, and you're sitting in the White House watching a close Congressional race when it bubbles up that the the Republican incumbent, long dogged by corruption rumors, is under federal investigation.

That's the situation the Bush White House found itself in when it was reported in late October 2006, first on blogs, that U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton was investigating Rep. Rick Renzi (R-AZ).

And that's when the damage control machine kicked into gear.

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