Posted on 06/24/2008 11:21:27 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Audit: Justice Department Weeded Out Dems WASHINGTON, June 24, 2008(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 audit released Tuesday found 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.
It found that such disqualifications "constituted misconduct and also violated the department's policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliation."
Two of the people who ran the job applicant screening program in 2006 no longer work at Justice, however, and "are no longer subject to discipline by the department for their actions," the report found.
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Good. Too bad this didn’t happen in other government departments.
My response is “so the hell what?” ... win elections, and get your guys into those jobs. Lose elections and nothing happens.
Why wasn’t this done at State?
“Audit: Justice Department Weeded Out Dems”
Good. Now if they could get rid of the existing commies in the department.
Well then, the screening processed worked and the unqualified liberal pansies didn't make the cut! The system worked!
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”?
Oh, the one run by Janet Reno and Mini Me Gorelick???
Are they referring to the days when Bobby Kennedy was AG for his brother John?
Or is the reference to when Janet Reno was doing the dirty work for Bill Clinton?
This is an outrage. With all the problems this nation is facing we’re going to need all the newly minted leftist lawyer types we can find to help us through this. One thing you can be sure of is that Janet Reno’s justice department would never have stooped so low.
Think of it as Affirmative Action for conservatives. Lord knows there’s enough of it when a liberal comes into office.
A lifetime on FR.
so?
</sarcasm>
That was my first thought.
Justice Department Weeds Out Anti-Constitutionalists
Maybe liberals are less qualified?
They should call it an “affirmative action diversity program”,
seeing as how libs are already over-represented in all of the bureaucracies of government,
because they see the gov’t as the best way to implement their fascist tendencies.
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