Audit: Justice Department Weeded Out Dems

[kskiska]

Source: CBS/AP

(CBS/ AP) A new audit concludes that rookie attorneys with Republican roots got interviewed for plum Justice Department jobs while their liberal-leaning counterparts got passed over.

The Justice Department's Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility released the audit Tuesday, revealing that a screening program installed in 2002 weeded out job applicants who had liberal or Democratic ties. Improper use of the screening program peaked in 2006, when politics and ideology disqualified what the audit called a significant number of newly graduated lawyers and summer interns seeking jobs.

The long-awaited report confirms widespread criticism last year that the once fiercely independent Justice Department was victim to political meddling by the Bush administration. The scandal led to the resignation last September of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

"Many qualified candidates were deselected by the screening committee because of their perceived political or ideological affiliations" in 2006, the audit concludes.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/24/national/main4205538.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4205538

[sutz12]

1. This about pegs my "NO SHIT!!!!" meter..

But I guess it is gratifying that the M$M even acknowledges that it happened. Note past tense.

Now that it is too late to stop the takeover, they report on it.

:shrug:

[Xipe Totec]

2. It's time to purge the scourge

erase the lot and start over.

[Mountainman]

3. Do the freepers contrast and compare this to travel-gate?

Let's see:

TOPICS: Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
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Were they easy to spot?

1 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:21:28 AM by Sub-Driver
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To: Sub-Driver
Good. Too bad this didn’t happen in other government departments.



2 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:23:33 AM by pnh102 (Save America - Ban Ethanol Now!)
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To: Sub-Driver
My response is “so the hell what?” ... win elections, and get your guys into those jobs. Lose elections and nothing happens.



3 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:23:37 AM by mgc1122
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To: Sub-Driver
Why wasn’t this done at State?



4 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:24:31 AM by Neidermeyer
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To: Sub-Driver
“Audit: Justice Department Weeded Out Dems”

Good. Now if they could get rid of the existing commies in the department.



5 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:25:27 AM by exile ("Get off the phone, ya big dope"- The Great One)
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To: Sub-Driver
Liberal Administrations hire conservative leaning interns and Justice Department attorneys right?

6 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:25:46 AM by poobear (“…individual salvation depends on collective salvation." Barack Hussein Obama Wesleyan University)
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"Many qualified candidates were deselected by the screening committee because of their perceived political or ideological affiliations"
Well then, the screening processed worked and the unqualified liberal pansies didn't make the cut! The system worked!


7 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:25:49 AM by avacado
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To: mgc1122
Did the same thing happen in the Clinton administration? Except there the Dems. got preference?

Are these political appointees in any way? Were any laws broken here? Or is this a story out there just to “stir the pot”?



8 posted on Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:25:59 AM by Dilbert San Diego
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[rfranklin]

4. Big difference...travel agents versus the nation's lawyers....

though not as serious as oral sex!

[Mountainman]

5. If I remember correctly they were all over travel-gate because they said Hillary fired people for

being conservatives. I could be wrong though.

[Doctor_J]

11. Is there a way to Lexis/Nexis how many days MSRNC spent on

Travelgate? Then we can compare that to how much time they spend on this corruption of the administration of the law of the land

[BrklynLib at work]

6. Hope they did not spend too much taxpayers' money on this not-very-shocking "audit".

I think anyone who is breathing has to be aware of the disgusting practices of B*sh's Justice Department.

[Robbien]

7. RICO violations all over the place

I am sure our Congress will get cracking on punishing the violators right away.

, , , Not holding my breath.

[Zodiak]

8. ...and the CIA, and the FBI, and the NSA

C'mon media...we know that Bush purged just about every department under his control. Are you going to tease us with "compromised Department of the week", because if so, it will run for well over a year.

[Dogtown]

9. K&R

i'm fucking speechless.

[Doctor_J]

10. they lifted this from the Nazi playbook

Hitler purged the Ministry of Justice of all non-Nazis the first couple years of his reign.

[fascisthunter]

22. Yes Hitler Did the Same

he actually weeded out political enemies more "out in the open" and much more agreesivesly with the same objective in mind.

[Supersedeas]

23. has a familiar legalistic ring

[happygoluckytoyou]

12. gee.... i'll alert the presses....look out GOP.... it's CLOBBERING time..someone's about to eat it

[cornermouse]

13. You're wrong.

They systematically weeded out everyone who was not a hardcore neo-con, turned the justice system into a spoils system, destroyed the justice department's credibility and perverted justice for years to come. Ashcroft, Gonzales, Bush and Cheney should be brought up on charges.

[NeoConsSuck]

14. Recommend and Kick

[Wednesdays]

15. K&R

:kick:

[libodem]

16. My incredulous meter

broke a long time ago. Maybe sometime after Scooter was pardoned. No, all the posts are filled with douches from Bob Jones University because they are believers. No posts have been filled with anybody who questions authority or can think outside the box. I hope Barrack will purge the government of these stupid parasites, when he gets in.

[Stuart G]

17. This one is ........against the law..and proveable..

So as msnbc is saying today..smoking gun........means someone might just go to jail..?

At least there is proof, and someone who will testify..and maybe another trial.time will tell..

[ShockediSay]

18. Report Assails Political Hiring in Justice Dept.

Source: NYTimes

WASHINGTON — Justice Department officials illegally used “political or ideological” factors in elite recruiting programs in recent years, tapping law school graduates with Federalist Society membership or other conservative credentials over more qualified candidates with liberal-sounding résumés, an internal report found Tuesday.

The report, prepared by the Justice Department’s own inspector general and its ethics office, portrays a clumsy effort by senior Justice Department screeners to weed out candidates for career positions whom they considered “leftists,” using Internet search engines to look for incriminating information or evidence of possible liberal bias.


Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/25justice.html

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They wouldn't use warrantless eavesdropping to get this kind of stuff, would they???

[Supersedeas]

21. high examples of courageous journalism -- Cable News is all over this, aren't they?

[slackmaster]

19. Let me add a "No shit, Sherlock!" to that one

:nuke:

[Papa Boule]

20. Republican dream: A paved new world

All this was was a little Roundup sprayed to take out the weeds sprouting in the cracks.

[pfitz59]

24. Not just Justice Department...

I would bet that every Fed Agency is packed with Bushistas. Call the Bush admin "the gift that keeps on giving!" No telling how many laws and investigations are going to be broken and covered-up in the years to come. These "repuke moles" will foul up the workings of Government to lay groundwork for Repuke resurgence. If I was Obama I'd have party loyalists review key positions for illegal hirees. Clues might be degrees from any evangelical college or university, membership in federalist society. "youthful" folk occupying positions above their experience level. (ie: Young College Grad who was hired to set up Iraq stock market!), people who have shown too rapid advancement (preferential hiring), "emergency" hirees (ie; hardfills). Obama better have a team ready to go right away, before the moles bury themselves too deep!