RNC hires Rove aid, Bush appointee, as Obama ’swiftboater’
Friday, May 23rd, 2008Tim Griffin is the RNC’s new hire as the opposition researcher on Barack Obama. Griffin has a colorful past as the RNC’s director of opposition research in 2004. But Griffin didn’t achieve notoriety until his role in the U.S. attorney purge scandal was revealed. After leaving the RNC, Griffin went to work in the White House as an aide to Karl Rove.

