On the Path to Attorney General, Olson Runs Into a Roadblock [View All]

On the Path to Attorney General, Olson Runs Into a Roadblock
By Michael A. Fletcher
Monday, September 17, 2007; Page A17
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/09/16/AR2007091601560.html?hpid=sec-politics


With President Bush settled on naming Michael B. Mukasey to replace former attorney general Alberto R. Gonzales, and intending to announce his choice as early as today, the man favored by many for the job has instead been passed over.

Theodore B. Olson, the former solicitor general, was said to be a White House favorite for the post. But talk of his possible nomination provoked a preemptive strike from Senate Majority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.), who threatened that Senate Democrats would block the nomination.

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Olson also represented the conservative American Spectator magazine, which launched multiple investigations into the personal and business lives of Bill and Hillary Clinton in the 1990s. He has denied playing an active role in the investigations -- known as the Arkansas Project -- or even knowing much about them until late in the process.

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