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APAssociated Press - June 12, 2007 5:34 PM ET
WASHINGTON (AP) - The former US Attorney for Kansas City, Missouri, is clarifying a key part of his Senate testimony from last week.
Bradley Schlozman is backing off comments that senior Justice Department officials directed him to file a voter fraud lawsuit in Missouri less than a week before the 2006 election.
Now Schlozman says he merely consulted with senior officials. He takes full responsibility for the decision to prosecute four voter registration activists.
Democratic Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy says the clarification raises questions about Schlozman's credibility.
The committee is investigating whether the lawsuit was part of a pattern of Justice officials acting out of partisan political reasons.
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Former U.S. attorney U-turns on testimony
By Jeremy Jacobs
June 12, 2007
A former senior Department of Justice (DoJ) official acknowledged Tuesday that he initially provided inaccurate testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee last week.
Bradley Schlozman, a former acting assistant attorney general and U.S. attorney, clarified his testimony in a letter to committee Chairman Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.).
Schlozman’s letter refers to his office’s decision last October to indict four employees of the Association of Community for Reform Now (ACORN) on voter registration fraud charges despite an “informal” policy of not pursuing voter fraud cases near an election.
Schlozman had testified that he “acted at the direction of the director of the Election Crimes Branch in the Public Integrity Section” in filing the indictments.
However, he stated in the letter to the panel that his initial testimony was inaccurate.
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