Minority women transferred out of DoJ to make room for 'good Americans'

[babylonsister]

Are public hangings now illegal, and why? :grr: :grr:


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/06/20/AR2007062002543.html

Political Hiring in Justice Division Probed

By Carol D. Leonnig
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, June 21, 2007; Page A01

Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago -- over the objections of their immediate supervisors -- by Bradley Schlozman, then the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Schlozman ordered supervisors to tell the women that they had performance problems or that the office was overstaffed. But one lawyer, Conor Dugan, told colleagues that the recent Bush appointee had confided that his real motive was to "make room for some good Americans" in that high-impact office, according to four lawyers who said they heard the account from Dugan.

In another politically tinged conversation recounted by former colleagues, Schlozman asked a supervisor if a career lawyer who had voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a onetime political rival of President Bush, could still be trusted.

Schlozman has acknowledged in sworn congressional testimony that he had boasted of hiring Republicans and conservatives, but he denied taking improper actions against the division's career officials. That account was challenged by six officials in the division who said in interviews that they either overhead him making brazen political remarks about career employees or witnessed him making personnel decisions with apparent political motivation.

Schlozman's efforts to hire political conservatives for career jobs throughout the division are now being examined as part of a wide-ranging investigation of the Bush administration's alleged politicization of the Justice Department. The department's inspector general and Office of Professional Responsibility confirmed last month that their inquiry, begun in March, will look at hiring, firing and legal-case decisions in the division.

Democrats on the Senate Judiciary Committee plan today to shine a renewed spotlight on decision-making in the division by questioning Schlozman's replacement, Wan Kim, about hiring practices and about its support for state voter-identification programs that could inhibit minority voting.

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[Botany]

1. Bradley Schlozman = the perfect nazi

A good day's work would kill him.

[petunia.here]

6. Wow, he actually looks like a rat.

:rofl:

I don't usually comment on a person's appearance but that pic made me move back from the puter screen.

creepy

[Captain Hilts]

2. Really amazing. nt

[wakeme2008]

3. Well he's right "good Americans' do not vote for McCain

:rofl:

[loudsue]

4. There has been little "justice" coming from the justice dept. under republicans

Just like there has been little oversight at the REPUBLICAN Food & Drug Administration against Chinese "food & drugs" that are killing our babies, pets, and the rest of us.

Just like there has been little oversight in the Environmental Protection Agency, that is staffed with REPUBLICAN oil barons' cronies, that are dismantling all the protections that were put in place to protect our environment and our people.

Republicans are the WORST people to put in government for ANY reason. They ADMIT AND BRAG that they "hate" our government, so why in the hell anyone would ever vote for one of them is sheer insanity.

All the republicans do is spend our tax dollars, and those tax dollars our grandchildren will have to pay, like a bunch of drunken sailors, all the while lining their pockets and chasing after young, under age girls and boys for sex. They're all government hating perverts.

Have I mentioned I HATE republicans?

:kick::kick::kick:

[mod mom]

5. I heard this interview on NPR that the * administration had just changed priorities

to human trafficking.

Guess they didn't have time to bother with the agencies other priorities, in fact they aimed to trash them.

[Colonel_Angus]

7. Wouldn't it be great if

People were judged by the content of their character, rather than the color of their skin (or other "minority" status)?

[babylonsister]

8. That quote sounds familiar! And welcome to DU, Colonel_Angus!

:hi:

[tom_paine]

9. The minority identity of the individuals is seminal to the felonies committed by the Bushies

The point is: A Justice Department Division, Civil Rights, charged with protecting people's right to vote vas purged, Soviet-style, and Loyal Bushie Comrades were put in place.

Overnight, the division's mission turned 180 degress from making sure people who's votes had historically been stolen and denied (and yes, they are mostly minorities) to an organization who's primary mission was to bring baseless charges against Democrats and minority voter registration firms right before elections (which had never been done before, no matter who worked there...it was ethics not to bring charges right before elections) and to try and suppress minority and hence Democratic turnout as well as turn people against "corrupt" Democrats right before elections.

This violates the Hatch Act, the Civil Rights Act, and I am willing to guess several other felonies if someone could be found with the balls to prosecute.

Your comment is a non-sequitur, sir.

[ozymandius]

10. Welcome to Democratic Underground, Colonel Angus!

Is this your photo?

[ProgressiveAmPatriot]

11. Where is the media's moral outrage? n/t

[Nikki Stone1]

13. Excellent question

:kick:

[Posteritatis]

12. The Civil Rights Division, no less! Argh! (nt)

[BlooInBloo]

14. (shrug) That's been one of the primary reasons for the very existence...

... of the republican party as it now is.