'Alvin the Chipmunk' Schlozman's testimony is in Conflict With Iglesias On Donsanto

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From TPMmuckraker:

Bradley Schlozman pointed to Craig Donsanto in his testimony today when he was asked who gave him the go ahead to press criminal voter fraud charges days before the 2006 midterm election, in an apparent violation of agency policy.

Donsanto, though, is the director of the Election Crimes branch of the Justice Department and author of the manual outlining that policy. It seems a bit surprising that he'd be the one to approve skirting that election policy, when he'd literally written the manual.

Schlozman's account also conflicts with an email former U.S. Attorney from New Mexico, David Iglesias sent to a Department of Justice legislative aide in 2004, just before an election. It shows Donsanto's stance was on bringing charges just before an election.

Here is Schlozman's testimony to Senator Schumer:

Here is more about Todd Graves's testimony:

In his testimony today, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri Todd Graves reiterated what he has maintained for the last few weeks in the press: he was pushed out to make room for someone else, not for performance reasons.

That someone, of course, was Bradley Schlozman who testified first today. Schlozman asserted that he knew nothing about Graves' dismissal and never discussed it with anyone.
Graves also recounted how he refused to sign a letter outlining a civil case against the state of Missouri for failing to purge its voter rolls.

Graves told the Kansas City Star that, in fact, he brought the case himself to squelch a complaint from a fired employee.