Rep. Nadler Joins Calls for Firing of DoJ Voting Section Chief

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Rep. Nadler Joins Calls for Firing of DoJ Voting Section Chief
Says Recent Comments and Other Actions by John 'Minorities Die First' Tanner Demonstrate He and Others Have 'Perverted the Justice Department'
PLUS: New Allegations of Financial Improprieties by a Subordinate, 'Could Not Have Occurred Without Tanner's Approval', Charges a BRAD BLOG DoJ Source...

The chairman of the U.S. House Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties, Rep. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), says that the DoJ's Voting Section chief, John Tanner, should be fired in light of recent controversial comments made at a panel at the National Latino Congresso in Los Angeles as first video-taped and reported by The BRAD BLOG.

Nadler is now the second elected official to publicly call for the removal of Tanner from his post.

"He should certainly be fired, obviously. Obviously, someone who has such prejudices has no business heading the Voting Rights section or any other branch of the government and certainly not being on the Federal Voting Commission, which is supposed to enforce our election laws and our voting rights laws," Nadler said in an interview on Democracy Now today.

He went on to detail several concerns about Tanner, and to charge that he, and a "few others" have "perverted the Justice Department."

As well, new allegations of financial improprieties by one of Tanner's immediate subordinates have surfaced this morning in the Washington Post. Questionable travel by the Voting Section's acting deputy director is now being investigated by the DoJ's Office of Professional Responsibility. The travel in question, a DoJ source tells The BRAD BLOG this morning, "could not have occurred without Tanner's approval"...

COMPLETE STORY, TRANSCRIPT OF NADLER'S COMMENTS,
VIDEO-TAPE OF TANNER'S ORIGINAL COMMENTS:
http://www.bradblog.com/?p=5203

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