Report sees illegal hiring practices at Justice Dept.
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WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.
The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.
“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”
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WASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.
The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.
“Many qualified candidates” were rejected for the department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, the report found. Those practices, the report concluded, “constituted misconduct and also violated the department’s policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”
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Terminate them. Simple as that.
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 3 months ago
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Terminate the whole Bush admin and all their clowns. By terminate I mean fire then JAIL.
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Does anyone really find this 'surprising"?
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Clinton fired 98 lawyers b/c of their ideology, it happens all the time
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jeromecon, The difference being he let them all go at once. I believe it was like they usually do at the beginning of his administration. Then they put people that are recent law school graduates that are recommended to them, not because of ideology but because they did well in school. This happened in the middle of Bush's, he picked the ones that wouldn't do his bidding and got rid of them.
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 3 months ago
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Who cares? People think it's alright to keep illegals in their jobs when they were not hired rightly or fairly. What is the big deal now? Oh this is different because they are rich and those who come from Mexico are poor.
Double standard.........stupid. no thank you. If you can't care for one why the hell do you care for the other? -
I care about the people of Mexico. We allow them to live in poverty and don't help them out of it so they can remain at home and live a decent life so we can exploit them for cheap labor. That should be a crime too. We could have made things better for them long ago, but we didn't for the reason above. I care about what Bush did because he was trying to get those attorneys to prosecute political candidates right before an election and when they refused he fired them. He also fired some that were prosecuting Republicans. Surly you care about that kind of behavior?
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 3 months ago
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What I don't appreciate is the double standard of allowing one while whining about another.
Mexicans are Mexico's problem not Americas. And I don't think it's fair that people think it's important that America stick to their own business and then only help certain countries they deem necessary. -
Jammer, Helping people raise themselves up is far different from trying to run their countries. You know it and I know it, you are just on the pick.
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- Marilynn_Murray
- 3 months ago
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As I stated it is the poor that get away with much while the scrutiny is that of the rich.
How is it not a double standard? Because of your sympathy and emotional need to feel for those that have little?
I see no difference between either and find both just as bad as the other. -
Less one forget WWII.
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This has been an astounding period in American history. Criminal action was tolerated, in fact, if you wanted to prosper - you had to be 'one of them', a crook willing to compromise your values (assuming you had values), a social path or even a psychopath.
The good thing is, the evil period has run it's course. Everyone is sick of it, even Republicans. You can only pi$$ in your own bed so long before you get a rash. -
"There's no justice, just us"
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It is amusing what people find wrong and what people find immoral and that one would find something like this so bad and yet allow something that is equally bad to go without them commenting----just because it is their party committing the crime.
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God I hate politics can you imagine a world without them? No that would be to perfect.
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- justwannafindmytrue
- 3 months ago
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As the state is the delegation of power into the hands of the few, it is obviously based on hierarchy. This delegation of power results in the elected people becoming isolated from the mass of people who elected them and outside of their control. In addition, as those elected are given power over a host of different issues and told to decide upon them, a bureaucracy soon develops around them to aid in their decision-making. However, this bureaucracy, due to its control of information and its permanency, soon has more power than the elected officials. This means that those who serve the people's (so-called) servant have more power than those they serve, just as the politician has more power than those who elected him. All forms of state-like (i.e. hierarchical) organisations inevitably spawn a bureaucracy about them. This bureaucracy soon becomes the de facto focal point of power in the structure, regardless of the official rules.
This marginalisation and disempowerment of ordinary people (and so the empowerment of a bureaucracy) is the key reason for anarchist opposition to the state.
Smash the state.-
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- TheVanguard
- 3 months ago
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Illegal hiring practices? Do you think there will be accountability? No, nothing is illegal when you control the justice department.
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Photo of John Ashcroft. Ashcroft was in charge of the Justice Department. He was a key factor in these illegal hiring practices. -
Although this is what i have come to expect from this administration, it still does not excuse the fact that what they have done is illegal and immoral. I had hoped that the one part of the government that is supposed to be unbiased; is just that. The problems of this government are far beyond what any of us could possibly imagine. I do hold out hope that it can be fixed, but at this point we may be to far gone. And just as a personal note, i thought we shot traitors in this country. I don't take trampling on the constitution very lightly.
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This is illegal, unethical and therefore criminal. It is high time that responsible parties be held accountable.
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- LucienRafagas
- 3 months ago
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Don't you think it is kind of elitist to suggest that graduates of Harvard and Yale are somehow more qualified than graduates of Jerry Falwell's evangelical law school?
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Wow, everytime I fill out an application, I always see the slogan, "We are an equal opportunity employer." To see that the Justice Department is not following this makes my jaw drop. Oh well... I guess it wasn't on their application... :-X :-/
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