Another One Bites

Rick Renzi joins Denny Hastert, Ray LaHood, Duncan Hunter, Deborah Pryce, and Chip Pickering in the "I'm Outta Here" caucus of the House GOP.

I'm sensing a pattern. Before long the number of House members retiring will match the number of Justice Department officials retiring.

Bradley Schlozman, a former Justice Department official who was at the center of the U.S. attorneys scandal and is under investigation by the Departments inspector general for his alleged efforts to politicize the Civil Rights Division, has finally left his post at the Department.

After he left his position as the U.S. attorney in Kansas City this April, Schlozman moved to the Justice Department office that oversees all U.S. attorneys. Reached on his cell phone today, Schlozman confirmed that he'd left the Department last week, but refused to say anything more and then hung up.

With Renzi as with Schlozman, I hope the investigations into wrongdoing continue.