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Lawbreakers at Justice

An inspector general's report concludes that Justice Department officials broke the law by placing politics foremost in Justice Department hiring decisions. (NY Times here.) The lead lawbreaker, Monica Goodling, was hip-deep in U.S. attorneygate, which included the ouster of Bud Cummins as U.S. attorney in LR to make room for the politically preferred Tim Griffin.

Impeachment is too good for this crowd. Slammer time would be better. You gotta love the job interview questions for Justice Department jobs. Among them, according to the article in the first link, fromTalking Points Memo:

Tell us about your political philosophy. There are different groups of conservatives, by way of example: Social Conservative, Fiscal Conservative, Law & Order Republican.

[W]hat is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?

Aside from the President, give us an example of someone currently or recently in public service who you admire.

Why are you a Republican?

As the Times summarized:

The new report released Monday goes much further, however, in documenting pervasive evidence of political hiring for some of the department’s most senior career, apolitical positions, including immigration judges and assistant United States attorneys.

The inspector general’s investigation found that Ms. Goodling and a handful of other senior aides to Mr. Gonzales developed a system of using in-person interviews and Internet searches to screen out candidates who might be too liberal and to identify candidates seen as pro-Republican and supportive of President Bush.

 

Comments

I wouldn't mind a job change. Let me take a whack at these:

1) My political philosophy is "Social, Fiscal, Law & Order, Death Wish, Tom Clancy Republicanism."

2) I want to serve George W. Bush because of his pheromones.

3) I hope this answer doesn't disqualify me, but I believe the Presidency should not be a public service position. It, like Congress and the Supreme Court, should be privatized. Blackwater and Wackenhut are good with executive action.

4) See answer 1). Also, I need the money.

These guys are, were, will be, sleeze. Nothing new about that. We can not start prosecuting poor performance in office. The political system is a big enough disaster already without that.

Anyone who went through one of these interviews and didnt' get the job should have filed a discrimination suit.

Big surprise, there is real power in the Presidency. That is why you are supposed to be careful who you elect.

Oh this is lovely.....just lovely! But hide and watch.....nothing will happen. Monica Goodling will marry some Ken doll looking Republican, write a book and start popping out kids. You all must notice by now that punishment is for us little people. Here a group of 20 something glassy-eyed kids ruin our Justice system and the best we do is say Oh My.....tisk tisk.

May I remind you the former Governor of Alabama spent a year in prison and our own Robbyn Tumey spent a fortune to defend herself from scurrilous charge in a case our government never got around to making against her. This is some pretty important shit!

I think by the time this is over we'll find out Tim Griffin killed Jon Benet while Scooter watched and touched himself. Lincoln & Pryor need to stand on their desks in the Senate and demand justice be done! Punishment is designed to make the guilty pay, but more importantly to deter others from committing the same crime. Cheney-Bush remain out of control because they've not so much got a slap on the wrist. This sets a bad example for President Obama. You gonna like him going thru yer mail? You want him to only put his friends in high positions?

Monica Goodling needs to meet some prison lesbians AND lose her law license.

Max,

Where'd you get those questions?

Hey and add to all that - every keystroke you make, every phone call you place, can be heard and read and kept and cross-referenced by THIS administration. Thanks, my party and my nominee, for rolling over for that hole in the Constitution.

I will stand for nothing less than Truth & Reconciliation action - I'd prefer prosecution.

This points out why I have fear of religion.

A true believer has the perfect justification for all actions. If you are one of the chosen you are required to do any and all things to defeat Satan and his lackeys.

Dis regard truth, honor, fairness etc, etc, etc because the end jsutifies the means. We are fighting for (fill in the blank) god, jesus, allah, confucius, yaweh, oden, tiger woods, merlin, or elvis.

The end justifies the means for Monica Goodling, a graduate of Messiah Colege who went on to Regent law school.

What the hell is Messiah College? If I saw that on resume for a job candidate here I would obviously question what they spent the time teaching there.


abortion clinic bombing 101,

how to ride a horse at night with a flaming torch and making sure you can still see through your eyeholes on your KKK hood - junior level-
(must have taken prerequisite of blacks are only 3/5's of a person)

Are those questions real? Because if they are, then that is truly shocking and way beyond creepy. Do they even display the Constitution in Washington anymore?

Probably from the story itself: Link here

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/07/inspector_general_releases_rep.php

Here is the brief on TPM.

"Why are you a Republican?"

ArkRed, Severus, strange...WHAT IF you made an honest, personal, IdeologyFreeZone response to this, temporarily setting polemics aside, as a basis for a civil, intelligent, respectful dialog some time?

I know, I'm just a dreamer...
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The problem is Dems.. especially Dems like our Blue Dogs in in the House and Senator - gang of fourteen --Alito and Gonzoles approving Pryor.

This is not just a Republican problem.. It's systemic.... and to many Democrats (all AR Democrats in office) deserve the same ridicule and scorn for what they have and continue to do to our Republic.

They have an oath, yet sit silent and complicit or in many cases actively embrace our constitutions demise.

Don't go off on Messiah College. Quite yet. Founded in 1909 so it is not like Falwell or Robertson's or Roberts' schools. Might want to reserach it a bit.

Quote form op-ed by educator at the college during the brouha:
"Messiah College, founded in 1909, and most other Christian institutions of higher learning, however, reject the promotion of an unreflective, ideological message, just as they reject political power for the Christian religion."

http://www.messiah.edu/offices/publications/the_bridge/summer07/hughes/hughes2.html
"

Though the name is troubling, Messiah ain't the problem. It's Regent University Law School from which little Goodling graduated with a smiling Pat Robertson looking on. The College of Jesus Christ Nailed On the FK'ing Cross isn't where the bad guys are hiding. It's in innocently named schools where the dirty work of indoctrinating our Republican Bush Youth takes place. I'm sorta sorry the guillotine fell out of favor, aren't you?

This is my favorite part of Tim Griffin's wikipedia entry:

"In October 2004, journalist and author Greg Palast alleged that Griffin was involved in an effort to target 70,000 voters - students, deployed military personnel and homeless people in predominantly African American and Democratic areas - for vote caging during the 2004 election.[2][3]. Monica Goodling said in her oral and written testimony to the U.S. House Committee on the Judiciary on May 23, 2007, that Griffin's alleged vote caging activities were desirable for Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty to be informed of, in relation to Griffin's potential Senate confirmation as a U.S. attorney.[4]
In July 2007 it was reported that "Internal city memos show the issue of Republican 'vote caging' efforts in Jacksonville's African-American neighborhoods was discussed in the weeks before the 2004 election, contradicting recent claims by former Duval County Republican leader Mike Hightower - the Bush-Cheney campaign's local chairman at the time."[5]."

Ms Goodling is married to Krepansky over at Red State,is there one word about her breaking news story this morning? Nope. Nor any word on the Church shooting. They're not big on self examination or introspection over in that neck of the forest.

Has Mark Pryor hired Tim Griffin yet?

Rather than shipping Goodling off to some minimum-security country club/federal prison she should be sentenced to return to the Jerry Falwell law school degree mill where she came from and serve a life-with-no-parole term grading exams of wingnut zealots like herself.

Those questions are hilarious. They sound like something from a North Korean job interview. Which, I guess, isn't hilarious at all.

When I saw "Law & Order Republican" I thought they were talking about Fred Thompson for a second.


Basil, read the link Max provided and then referred to in his commentary

The report also details some of the questions Goodling used for her interviews, here's a pithy little excerpt:

Tell us about your political philosophy. There are different groups of conservatives, by way of example: Social Conservative, Fiscal Conservative, Law & Order Republican.

[W]hat is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?

Aside from the President, give us an example of someone currently or recently in public service who you admire.

And our personal favorite:

Why are you a Republican?<<
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There's also a big emerging class of Conservatives: CRIMINAL.

Another question: Why Should DOJ personnel take the Fifth Amendment when testifying before Congress?

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Well One can hope that some of the lawyers in DC that work for Democrats in the Congress will file a complaint with her state bar in an effort to get her disbarred. She clearly broke the law.


OTHER "GROUPS" of CONSERVATIVES;

GAY OLD PARTY Conservatives

HALLIBURTON CONSERVATIVES, money is god.

PERVERT REPUBLICANS.

CHILD MOLESTER REPUBLICANS.
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The heats got eLwood talking like LargeAss all of a sudden! Someone blow on him!

I also think one of the things Monica Goodling ask was: George W. Bush, great President or greatest President? The wingnuts can talk about Bill's blowjob all they want but the politicization of our Justice system and God knows what else is one of the worst crimes ever committed against the people of the United States of America-AT&T!

It's the gift that keeps on giving and it will be decades before we find out how many good people have been FK'ed over because of little Monica and the rest of the Karl Rove goons. It ought to carry the death penalty! Like after we bombed Hiroshima, it took years to properly access the damage, after Cheney-Bush it will be a long time before we know how badly we're bleeding.

Sic semper tyrannis

The big question here is where is Strangelove, Proudster, Lard Ass and our favorite, that whacky, everloving, worst speller in the world ChasV.
What? No defense for the indefensible?
Let's add to this the projected $482 billion deficit for next year. Oh yeah, that doesn't include the spending for the war in Iraq, which is mandated to be included, the the administration ignored it, like they ignore civil liberties, the Geneva Conventions and the Constitution.
Fucking bastards.

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