Tim Flanigan's Confirmation as Deputy AG
With the focus last week on Tom Delay, Bill Frist and Judith Miller, there has been very little attention devoted to Timothy Flanigan, President Bush’s controversial Deputy Attorney General nominee, who is tied to indicted lobbyist Jack Abramoff and the torture scandal.
In 2002, Flanigan was the top deputy to then-White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales -- during the period when the infamous Justice Department memo was written opining that if pain caused by physical coercion during interrogation did not result in major organ failure or death, it wasn't really torture.
As Senator Dick Durbin said in a Judiciary Committee meeting last week (received by e-mail):
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