Department of Justice Under Fire
It was announced today that the former DOJ White House Liaison, broke federal law in her hiring and promoting practices.
From Firedoglake…
The DOJ’s offices of OIG and OPR issued a new report today (PDF) on the politicization of hiring at Justice. Marcy has a fantastic run-down on it here, including how Monica Goodling rejected a well-qualified anti-terrorism prosecutor because of his wife’s political leanings in favor of an unqualified political crony. Shades of Brownie, anyone?Of those figuring prominently, we see some familiar names: Monica Goodling, Kyle Sampson, Karl Rove, Alberto Gonzales and many others. Gonzales comes off as a clueless figurehead who had no idea what his politically motivated and Rove-installed underlings were doing. Well, I don’t buy it: he was installed precisely to allow this sort of thing to occur, and he should be held to account for allowing it at DOJ.
From TPMMuckraker…
It wasn’t just Democrats who Monica Goodling was trying to rid the Justice Department of. If you were gay — or even rumored to be gay — your career was in jeopardy.
Today’s IG report offers new details in the case of Assistant U.S. Attorney Leslie Hagen, whose tenure at Main Justice came to an end because Monica Goodling picked up on rumors that Hagen was gay and had an allegedly romantic relationship with her supervisor, the then-U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Michigan, Margaret Chiara.
From Buzzflash…
Both Fox News and the White House press corps don’t seem to have much interest in the report released Monday by the Justice Department’s Offices of Inspector General and Professional Responsibility. It found that former DOJ White House Liaison Monica Goodling broke federal law in her hiring and promoting practices.
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