Video: Joe Rich on the Politicization of the Justice Department
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Joe Rich, former chief of the Voting Section, comments on the politicization of the Justice Department. "There was a tradition," says Rich, " of career people... that carried on a tradition of apolitical law enforcement. And often disagreements with political appointments may have different views of the law, but it was always done on a level of arguing the law, and the interpretation of the law, and really keeping politics out of it."
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