Author: mkt

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Last year, then Deputy Chief of Staff Harriet Miers hosted four sessions of Ask the White House — “an online interactive forum where you can submit questions to Administration officials and friends of the White House.”  Miers’ responses suggested some characteristics that one might not necessarily associate with a prospective Supreme Court justice:

• She appeared to be comfortable with allowing blocks of text borrowed from other authors to be published under her name without any acknowledgement or formal attribution.
• She did not seem to feel obligated to ensure that her writings published at the official White House Web Site were proofread to identify and correct glaring errors.
• She appeared willing to continue to recite partisan political talking points after they had been largely dismissed as inaccurate or misleading to the public.

Miers’ Ask the White House responses also include some statements that may serve as the basis for a few provocative confirmation hearing questions.

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