Wow! Tim Griffin was Barbara Comstock's Deputy!

[grasswire]

Barbara Comstock (spit) was the head of the RNC's opposition research team during election 2000 and one of those horrid harridans who were deployed as Scaife-paid pundits during the Clinton years.

Then she went to work for Ashcroft, and Monica Goodling and Tim Griffin worked under her there. (Goodling was Comstock's protege at the RNC oppo shop!)

Here's the skinny, from findlaw:

"After graduating in 1999, Goodling landed a job at the D.C. headquarters of the Republican National Committee just as the 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign was ramping up. Goodling's position put her inside the newly created war room for political opposition research. There, she worked alongside a crew of party faithful who would later shepherd her through the ranks at Justice.

Among Goodling's close associates were Barbara Comstock, head of opposition research for the RNC and later the chief spokeswoman for Ashcroft; Griffin, Comstock's deputy, whom Goodling would later help to win the interim appointment to replace one of the eight ousted U.S. Attorneys in Arkansas; and Mark Corallo, who in 2003 took the helm of the Justice Department's Public Affairs Office after Comstock.

Goodling quickly won Comstock's trust for her hard work and talent for digging up information on tort litigation and judicial nominations. And when Griffin left in 2001, Goodling became Comstock's deputy. They helped prepare Ashcroft and Theodore Olson for their confirmation hearings to be attorney general and solicitor general, respectively."


http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1175245444489

[Norquist Nemesis]

1. IIRC, it was Andrea Mitchell (of all people) who said that digging

up research is his specialty. Now, if Andrea Mitchell's saying it...

[grasswire]

2. so they were putting this expert in oppo research into Arkansas!

Great. Just great.

[Norquist Nemesis]

3. Ding ding ding!

[grasswire]

4. kick for the weekend crowd

It really is significant in understanding the depth of the treachery here. A man who was trained by opposition research expert Barbara Comstock was to be installed as the United States Attorney largely on the recommendation of Comstock's protege at the RNC!!!

Is Comstock surreptitiously running the politicization of the DoJ??

[WillyT]

5. Yep... And The Attorneys Seem To Know Her REAL WELL !!!

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Her tenure at Justice, which began in 2002 in its press operations under then-Attorney General John Ashcroft, tracked what some have seen as a growing politicization of the department, from the purge of career attorneys in the Civil Rights Division to the appointment of young party loyalists, often with little or no prosecutorial experience, to Justice's top levels.

To her defenders, Goodling is a hyperdiligent employee who was merely doing her job: finding politically appropriate replacements for fired U.S. Attorneys. But talk to current and former U.S. Attorneys about political appointments, and Goodling's name is often front and center. One former U.S. Attorney, asked several weeks ago for his reaction to the then-breaking scandal, said Goodling was the first name that came to his mind.

"I know from the way she interacted with my district. I sense her hand all over what we're seeing right now," he said at the time. "She's gotten way out ahead of her office, and now they're having to deal with the consequences."

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Link: same article

Apparently she's got quite the reputation.

:shrug: