More On Olson: Yuck! This sure as hell isn't a good thing

Ted Olson leading candidate to be nominated AG -ugghh

By joan reports
09/12/2007 09:09:18 PM EST

Reports this morning are Olson is rising today to the top as a candidate to be named the replacement of Gonzales as AG. But Olson's just 1 more in a line of partisan warriors - not what the country desperately needs now for tarnished DoJ with its compromised attorney offices.

The role of service by Olson in his deception to Congress and to the public, like that of Laurence Silberman, was to hide the carefully buried truths of the Iran-Contra fiasco.

Both men's names were touted as leading choices for Bush's next nominee to the post. Silberman staged an intercession aimed to stymie Jimmy Carter's negotiations to get our hostages freed from captivity in Tehran in the fall of 1980 -- so that his man Reagan could gain from the impasse and get elected. The resulting arms-for-hostages award for the release of the men after Reagan was elected was defended strenuously with "mistruth"by Olson.

Fast forward to the 90s. The writing by attorney Theodore Olson of anonymous articles for the Spectator magazine for the Arkansas Project, aiming to smear and destroy the Clinton presidency, is an exquisitely close reminder of the anonymous writings of recent DoJ lawyer Hans von Spakovsky in a legal journal to secretly tout voter ID laws, to advance a law that reliably shaves the vote of poor, elderly, minority (that is, Democratic-leaning) citizens.

That, and falling in love with another woman 1 year after your wife was killed on 9-11, does not qualify you for the post. (Sorry for the low blow, but this man was all about low blows.)

Oh, and there was his role stopping the recount of votes in 2000. In the case Bush v. Gore argued in front of the US Supreme Court, Olson persuaded 5 of the justices that the equal right to have your vote re-counted should trump the equal right to have your vote counted (first time). There is overwhelming evidence that people's admission to the polling place and processing of votes across different county and technologies was vastly unequal in 2000. Still true in 2002, 2004, ..., 2008.

A legacy for justice. Or perhaps injustice.

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