{"id":5180,"date":"2007-10-19T16:13:27","date_gmt":"2007-10-19T23:13:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bradblog.com\/?p=5180"},"modified":"2007-10-21T04:05:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-21T11:05:20","slug":"wapo-reports-another-doj-official-defends-tanner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5180","title":{"rendered":"WaPo Reports Another DoJ Official Defends Tanner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the <a href=\"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/?p=5179\">earlier AP-reported<\/a> &#8220;grossly misconstrued&#8221; response by a DoJ spokesman to John Tanner&#8217;s &#8220;minorities die first&#8221; remarks, Paul Kane at <i>Washington Post<\/i> files yet another defense of the embattled Tanner from yet another DoJ spokesman. Kale posts the entire &#8220;full-throated defense&#8221; from Brian Roehrkasse <a href=\"http:\/\/blog.washingtonpost.com\/capitol-briefing\/2007\/10\/obama_doj_must_fire_voting_rig.html\">on his Capitol Briefing blog.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Even as a DoJ insider source of ours writes to say &#8220;thanks for starting the ball rolling on what may be the end of John Tanner.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;That&#8217;s all anybody&#8217;s talking about&#8221; today, the source tells us.<\/p>\n<p>Despite suggestions to the contrary, as made this week by Bush&#8217;s AG-nominee Michael Mukasey during his AG Senate confirmation hearings, things are not quite as peachy keen inside the Civil Rights Division as the Bushies would love you to believe.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a constant uphill struggle against hand-picked Bush administration appointees like John Tanner,&#8221; the insider wrote, &#8220;That is why we are so often demoralized: they won&#8217;t let us do our work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>You wouldn&#8217;t know it, of course, if you listened only to the Bush administration&#8217;s hand-picked spokesmen\/deniers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In addition to the earlier AP-reported &#8220;grossly misconstrued&#8221; response by a DoJ spokesman to John Tanner&#8217;s &#8220;minorities die first&#8221; remarks, Paul Kane at Washington Post files yet another defense of the embattled Tanner from yet another DoJ spokesman. Kale posts the entire &#8220;full-throated defense&#8221; from Brian Roehrkasse on his Capitol Briefing blog. Even as a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"ep_exclude_from_search":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[223,321],"tags":[],"coauthors":[],"class_list":["post-5180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dept-of-justice","category-john-tanner","bb-type-bradblog"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5180"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bradblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcoauthors&post=5180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}