The revelations come fast and furious.
Last night, the AP reported that when the local press revealed that Rep. Rick Renzi’s (R-AZ) was under investigation just weeks before the election, his top aide called U.S. Attorney Paul Charlton’s aide to ask about it. Charlton was one of the U.S. attorneys who was fired little more than a month later. And even though Charlton’s aide had reported the contact to the Justice Department (as the rules dictate), that report was not among the thousands of pages the Justice Department turned over to congressional investigators.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=180960