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Justice Dept. confirms investigation of Goodling.

Newsweek reports that the Justice Department has “confirmed it’s investigating whether [Monica] Goodling improperly assessed the political loyalties of applicants for career assistant U.S. attorney posts.” The probe began “after Jeff Taylor, the interim U.S. attorney in D.C., complained that Goodling tried to block the hiring of a prosecutor in his office for being a ‘liberal Democratic type.’”

UPDATE: Rep. John Conyers (D-MI) today said that “the Department of Justice gave notice that it would not object to the House Judiciary Committee’s grant of use immunity for Monica Goodling.”

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