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Marisa Taylor

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E-mail Marisa Taylor at mtaylor@mcclatchydc.com

Marisa Taylor covers the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. Taylor has 14 years of daily newspaper experience in Mexico, Texas, California and Virginia. She has covered federal courts and agencies, crime and politics. Taylor started her career as a reporter in Mexico City and speaks Spanish. In 2008, she, along with Greg Gordon and Margaret Talev, won a McClatchy ``President’s Award’’ and Scripps Howard’s Raymond Clapper Memorial Award for Washington reporting for exposing the Bush administration’s politicization of the Justice Department.

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Mukasey denies politics at Justice, surprising Democrats

By Marisa Taylor | McClatchy Newspapers

Attorney General Michael Mukasey, who took office after months of scandal over the dismissal of nine U.S. attorneys for what they said were political reasons, told Congress Wednesday that he had found no widespread politicization within the Justice Department. His testimony drew sharp criticism from Democrats, who accused him of ignoring a larger pattern they said the U.S. attorneys' firings had uncovered. » read more

Posted on Wed, July 9, 2008

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