August 13, 2008 - Attorney General Michael Mukasey will not be prosecuting Justice Department employees who engaged in illegal hiring practices. Said Mukasey yesterday:
Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.
Oh, hell yeah...
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August 11, 2008 - Washington, D.C. - Former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales showed up at the Robert F. Kennedy Department of Justice Building disguised as current Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey. Gonzales resigned as Attorney General in August, 2007. His goal in disguising himself as Mukasey was apparently to i...
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July 30, 2008 - This week, an internal Justice Department report concluded that DOJ aides broke the law by using politics to guide hiring decisions, frequently staffing unqualified conservatives over suspected liberals in career positions. Taking much of the blame is Monica Goodling, whose background checks on job...
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July 28, 2008 - Shattering our long-held belief that the Bush Justice Department was completely independent of politics, a report released on Monday (from the same Justice Department) indicates otherwiselow-level staffers, led by M...
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June 26, 2008 - The Justice Department's Inspector General revealed that Ivy Leaguers and other top law students were rejected for Justice Department jobs because of their...
June 24, 2008 - A "blistering" new report from the Justice Department's Inspector General found that Justice officials illegally used "political or ideological" factors in hiring new lawyers for an elite recruitment program over the la...
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