Even though it is Democrats throwing the bombs.

A federal search warrant obtained by the Post-Dispatch connects a former Democratic campaign strategist to a Clayton bombing last year that seriously injured an attorney.

About two months after the October bombing, federal law enforcement officials searched the downtown loft of Milton H. "Skip" Ohlsen III, seeking "evidence related to the planning, execution, and/or cover-up of the bombing in Clayton, Missouri, on October 16, 2008." Ohlsen in recent weeks has been at the center of a swirling political scandal that is threatening the political careers of at least two Missouri Democratic legislators.

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Ohlsen was arrested on federal fraud and firearms charges on Dec. 18, 2008, in an unrelated case, according to federal court records.

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Ohlsen, 37, is the former Democratic operative involved in the federal investigation into the failed 2004 congressional campaign of Jeff Smith. Both Smith, now a state senator from St. Louis, and Steve Brown, a state representative from Clayton, have been involved in that federal inquiry, according to state government sources.

And by interesting coincidence, both Smith and Brown entered guilty pleas to corruption charges related to that 2004 campaign and resigned from office. It appears that the two men hired Ohlsen to illegally produce and distribute campaign literature in a manner that violated federal law, and then lied about it to federal investigators.

Dirty elections and acts of terrorism -- brought to you by your friends, the Democrats.

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