Daily Caller: “Some of that information was false.”
“I do find it unusual that apparently during the time that I was prosecuting criminal cases in South Carolina for the Department of Justice, the Department’s press spokesman was clandestinely providing information to chosen media outlets to try to defame me,” Coates told TheDC.
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“US Supreme Court turns down challenge to Texas’ interim maps”
If there was still any confusion about this year’s general election
in Texas, the U.S. Supreme Court put an end to it on Wednesday. Justice Antonin Scalia denied a request by the League of United Latin
American Citizens to declare illegal the interim congressional and
legislative maps a federal court in San Antonio ordered in March. Link to story.
Michigan: 4,000 Noncitizens on Voter Rolls
Bumbling DOJ FOIA response on election inquiries
Katie Pavlich has more at Town Hall how DOJ “lost” her Freedom of Information requests about the New Black Panthers and Media Matters.
Amazing: DOJ refers press inquiries to Media Matters
Katie Pavlich has been getting emails at Town Hall from reporters who say they asked DOJ OPA questions about stories – and the response was to send a link to a Media Matters story!!
Here is a photo of one such email.
“Serve your country by working the polls in November”
The Foundry.
“Give an Applewhite a Day to the PA Supreme Court”
O’Reilly Factor on DOJ’s Tracy Schmaler and Media Matters
More Fox News on DOJ-Media Matters Collaboration
More at Fox:
“DOJ’s Tracy Schmaler and Three Characteristics of Political Thugs”
PJ Media Rule of Law: Third, while political thugs often have an unintentional comic streak, their behavior is deadly serious and destructive. Consider that Schmaler has taken the lead in defending the murderous Fast and Furious program at DOJ. She literally found herself in the disgraceful role of spinning away culpability for a government policy that killed people. How convenient for a hip, young resident of the Beltway living in comfort. While real people were dying real deaths, she enjoyed a fat salary for hiding the government behavior that caused it. She lied to the media about Fast and Furious and screamed at those she didn’t lie to. Most of us wonder how someone like that sleeps at night. But history is full of people, both petty and dangerous, who can sleep at night no matter what they do during the day.”
“Some time has passed since Matt Boyle broke the story today about the close coordination between Tracy Schmaler, head of the Office of Public Affairs and Media Matters. Megyn Kelly’s Fox report notes that Schmaler writes “great piece” after attacking former Justice Department Voting Section Chief Christopher Coates. Coates is one of the most decent and courteous lawyers I have ever met. An attack on him by the head of OPA while he was still employed at DOJ is a disgrace. . . .