Washington, D.C. – At a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee, U.S. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) illustrated the dramatic change, under the Bush administration, in the policy governing initial contact between the Department of Justice and the White House on pending criminal investigations or cases (excluding matters of national security).
See below for reproductions of the charts Whitehouse displayed. The policy that preceded the Bush administration is illustrated on the left; the Bush administration’s policy is on the right.
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