Gonzales Aides Used Politics in Hiring, Report Says (Update3)

[Faygo Kid]

Source: Bloomberg

July 28 (Bloomberg) -- Aides to former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales violated federal law by improperly using political considerations when hiring career Justice Department lawyers and immigration judges, an agency report found.

The audit, by the Justice Department inspector general and ethics chief, concluded that Monica Goodling, the White House liaison, and Gonzales's chief of staff, Kyle Sampson, committed misconduct. Gonzales, who resigned under pressure last year, was generally unaware of his aides' actions, the report said.

The screening ``resulted in high-quality candidates for important department positions being rejected,'' the agency's inspector general, Glenn Fine, said in a statement.

The report, the second of four that the internal watchdogs are releasing this year on politicization at the Justice Department, cites several other officials for improperly screening job candidates or for making inaccurate statements about the process. The first audit, released last month, said department staffers used partisan considerations to hire interns and young lawyers. . .


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This may be obvious, but it is no less disturbing.

You can see Rove's dirty fingerprints all over this, as well. Why nobody goes to jail is beyond me. It's not healthy to have such unchecked corruption anywhere.

Of course, they will all receive blanket pardons soon, and big money jobs from their corporate "friends."

[Xipe Totec]

1. What a fucking embarrassment

I feel personally humiliated that this worthless toady got to be Attorney General of the United States.

[Faygo Kid]

2. John Mitchell is the only one equally loathsome in my memory.

Both corrupt. Mitchell was smarter.

[Frisbee]

4. Mitchell was smarter.

That's what gets me about these a$$holes. Their not even very good at what they do, just bold as hell, and when caught willing to say "so what are you going to do about it?". And sadly, in most cases nobody does much of anything. I just have to wonder what might have happened with a few indictments early on in the * administration.

[howmad1]

3. Sooooooooooo?

Wonder which rethugs are going to jail over this?

[Maestro]

5. They broke the law but none will got to jail or even

be disbarred. :eyes: I sometimes wonder if high connected politicians are even prosecutable, Rove, Cheney, Bush, Gonzalez, et. al.

[Faygo Kid]

7. Only Dems. Ask Don Siegelman. Or Bill Clinton, for that matter.

Who, you may recall, was impeached for LYING ABOUT A FUCKING BLOWJOB.

It seems like another century ago, doesn't it??

Oh that's right - it was. In this century, lying the nation into war and causing untold human and economic destruction means you get to go right on doing it with no consequences to you whatsover.

[Maestro]

8. Yes, only Dems

WTF is wrong with this country!?!?!?!?!?!

[bertman]

6. WOW!! I'M SHOCKED.

Haven't we known about this shit for two or three years?

So just now, our Justice Department lets the report become public. Gonzo and Monica are now private citizens, while the United States of America is Fucked. Yay for justice.

[varun]

9. So whats the punishment?

We knew they were guilty a long time ago...so what are we going to do about it now?

[Cherchez la Femme]

10. "Gonzales... was unaware...."

...and I am the King of Moravia.

Seriously, who actually believes that?!