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Bush’s Politics-First Justice Department Has a New Poster Boy
Truthdig: Drilling Beneath the Headlines —
... jobs, transferred those he called “right-thinking Americans” into top assignments and instructed colleagues that “adherents of Mao’s little red book need not apply,” according to e-mails cited in the report. Authorities analyzed 112 career hires during Schlozman’s tenure and determined that “virtually all” of the lawyers whose political affiliations were known at the time had ties to Republicans or conservative legal groups.
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ThinkFast: January 14, 2009
Think Progress —
... , a former Justice official “entrusted with enforcing civil rights laws,” had refused to hire lawyers whom he labeled as “commies” and transferred another attorney for allegedly writing in “ebonics” and benefiting from “an affirmative action thing.” The report concluded that he had violated civil service laws and lied to Congress. ...
Tom Engelhardt: The Day the Earth Still Stood: What Will Obama Inherit?
Politics on HuffingtonPost.com —
... We know that, after eight catastrophic years, some parts of it are definitely in an advanced state of wear and tear. The Justice Department is a notorious, demoralized wreck. So, infamously, is the Federal Emergency Management Agency. So, for that matter, is the ...
