FBI RAIDS OFFICE, HOME OF SPECIAL COUNSEL IN CORRUPTION INVESTIGATION:

FBI agents raided the home and office of federal Special Counsel Scott Bloch yesterday, seizing computers and documents related to a corruption investigation. "Employees said the searches appeared focused on alleged obstruction of justice by Mr. Bloch during the course of an 2006 inquiry into his conduct in office," the Wall Street Journal reported. Bloch had been tasked with looking into whether former White House aide Karl Rove used government resources to help elect Republicans in 2006. But at the same time, Bloch has engaged in his own Rove-like behavior and has been under investigation since 2005. Steve Benen of The Carpetbagger Report describes the bizarre nature of the raid: "Only with the Bush gang is this set of circumstances even possible -- Bloch is ostensibly investigating the Justice Department for its political activities, and simultaneously the Justice Department sends the FBI to raid Bloch's office and home."