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Government's Leading Anticorruption Group Fraught with Failure

With failed Edwards conviction, the Justice Department's anticorruption section continues to flounder.

June 5, 2012 RSS Feed Print
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Jack Smith, the Department of Justice's chief of the Public Integrity Section, poses for photo at the Department of Justice in Washington.

"They don't have a very good record and it's too bad," says Meredith McGehee, policy director of the Campaign Legal Center. "That's one place where you would hope you'd have the best and brightest. Their track record doesn't earn them that moniker."

Seth Cline is a reporter for U.S. News and World Report. You can contact him at scline@usnews.com or follow him on Twitter

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John Ensign,
Don Young,
John Edwards,
Ted Stevens,
corruption,
Department of Justice

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