Is Rep. John Doolittle’s (R-CA) career going down the tubes for Alberto Gonzales’s sins? That’s Doolittle’s story. Doolittle has made a number of wild claims in recent days. But on Saturday he wrote a guest column in his hometown newspaper, the Auburn Journal. In the column Doolittle claims that the Justice Department raided his home in Northern Virginia and subsequently leaked news of the raid in order to give AG Alberto Gonzales ammunition to argue that he’s evenhanded in pursuing Democratic and Republican corruption.
Doolittle notes, accurately enough, that the leak (from what source we don’t know) came the day before Gonzales’s ill-fated testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee on April 19th.
