Today's Republican Party: Everybody knows Jack Abramoff (me, too!) -- and everybody works for Karl Rove!

---from the New York Times:

The nominee for deputy attorney general, Timothy E. Flanigan, was at the center of the administration's policies on torture as deputy White House counsel through late 2002. At his confirmation hearing on Tuesday, members of the Senate Judiciary Committee questioned him extensively, and sometimes critically, about his role in formulating policies on the treatment of prisoners in the campaign against terrorism.

He also faced tough questioning on his views on Congressional oversight, his lack of experience as a prosecutor and his ties to Jack Abramoff, a Washington lobbyist who is now under criminal investigation. Mr. Flanigan acknowledged that as general counsel at Tyco International, a corporation that became embroiled in scandal before his arrival in December 2002, he had personally supervised Mr. Abramoff's lobbying work for Tyco in 2003.

STORY: Justice Nominee questioned


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