Rep. Frank Wolf (R-VA) had his first shot at Attorney General Eric Holder on Tuesday, and he based his first question on a report on the handling of Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests authored the ex-Justice Department “whistleblower” behind the controversial New Black Panther Party case. But Holder said he looked into the allegations made by former Justice Department lawyer J. Christian Adams and found there was “no ideological component to how we answer the requests.”Wolf’s first question at a subcommittee hearing — ahead of his questions on the Justice Department’s decision not to defend the Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and even his questions on terrorism — was based on a post Adams wrote for Pajamas Media. The conservative lawyer, who was hired into the Civil Rights Division during the Bush Administration, made the serious allegation in the February article that Holder’s Justice Department had “politicized compliance with the Freedom of Information Act.”
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