A Letter from Anonymous Justice Employees

(This was posted yesterday on SPEAKER PELOSI'S BLOGSITE. Please forgive if this is a dupe.)

Today the House and Senate Judiciary Committees received a letter from anonymous Justice Department employees concerning widespread politicization at the Justice Department. Read the full letter here (pdf). The opening excerpt:

Dear Messrs. Chairman,

Many of us in the Department of Justice have been watching with admiration as you expose the overly political firing of United States Attorneys and hope that you can help in returning our beloved Department to of establishing justice in the United States. We are equally concerned, however, about the politicizing of the non-political ranks of Justice employees, offices which are consistently and methodically being eroded by partisan politics...

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...When division personnel staff later compared the remaining interviewees with the candidates struck form the list, one common denominator appeared repeatedly: most of those struck form the list had interned for a Hill Democrat, clerked for a Democratic judge, worked for a “liberal” cause, or otherwise appeared to have “liberal” leanings. Summa cum laude graduates of both Yale and Harvard were rejected for interviews...

THE BLOG POST ALSO REFERENCES:

The hearing on the Civil Rights Division included some disturbing testimony, including this from Joseph D. Rich, a former career lawyer at the Civil Rights Division:

For example, during my tenure as section chief for the Voting Section, I was ordered to change standard performance evaluations of attorneys under my supervision to include critical comments of those who had made recommendations that were counter to the political will of the front office and to improve evaluations of those who were politically favored.

In my 32 years of management in the division before this administration, I was never asked to alter my performance evaluations.

MORE:

http://www.speaker.gov/blog/?p=262

Nail them Dems.

bottom tier "law" school land 150 positions.

Nope, doesn't sound political to me.

The DOJ tops dogs are guilty of Felonies. Who will indict them?

I don't believe this is a partisan matter. It never has been. That's just the cloak the neocons threw over it to keep us fighting and distracted from what was really going on. And what was really going on was a coup.

Look at all they've managed to achieve within the justice department without anyone noticing till last year. The people who wrote that letter are scared. Justice wasn't the first to go down, but it's perhaps the most decisive victory for the neocons. Nationwide, our legal institutions are now in the control of anti-American operatives posing as conservatives.

At this point can we trust ANY government agency to put democracy and the rule of law above ideological ambitions?

And Americans still believe fascism could never take root here. Well, look closely, America. It's not only taken root, it's settled in and making itself comfortable. And many in Congress are making excuses for it.

:kick:

no accident. They are like termites, eating away the infrastructure of each and every department, piece by piece.

:puke:

Bushies are the lowest form of life.

--IMM

http://www.whitehouseforsale.org/documents/appoint0804.pdf

This is a partial list of some of the incompetents running our government...making decisions that affect our lives.

Their only qualification is that they raised money for the prez. A Pioneer raised at least $100,000 and Rangers gave at least $200,000 to *.

They were rewarded with governmental posts.

I now know how the French and Russians felt right before they revolted against the over-priveleged.

HeeHee.

:rofl:

I had extensive conversations with both Jesus AND the Virgin Mary (strangely enough, they didn't recognize each at first, and weren't particularly close thereafter). Neither one of them would have done this!

(Oh, and Ricky, Jesus's friend, had a beautiful red-headed vixen moon-wife, that would take him far away to various planets in the Galaxy for fun times, and then return him for his mission here, but I digress ... )

A fabricated war based on lies couldn't bring them down. A wholesale transfer of power and wealth to a tiny elite couldn't bring them down. The incompetence and callousness of Katrina couldn't bring them down. Stolen elections. The list goes on and on. Maybe - just maybe - this will do it. But only if the Dems have spines of steel.

Fox News, Wall Street Journal, countless right wing TV and radio talk shows will fight tooth and nail to prevent the truth from coming out. The drumbeat for censorship from that crew (see O'Reilly, for example - he's off the deep end) is growing by leaps and bounds. We live in dangerous times in many senses, but as we approach 2008 with these madmen (and Condi) in office, we should all be cognizant that they will not go quietly into the night.

I don't see how this country will be able to get rid of these people in our government without going against the very principles of freedom we say we're about -- and that, no doubt, is what these creeps are counting on.

:kick:

When division personnel staff later compared the remaining interviewees with the candidates struck form the list, one common denominator appeared repeatedly: most of those struck form the list had interned for a Hill Democrat, clerked for a Democratic judge, worked for a “liberal” cause, or otherwise appeared to have “liberal” leanings. Summa cum laude graduates of both Yale and Harvard were rejected for interviews."


If the distinctions were about race they certainly would have a case.

every civil service employee in every cabinet department that was hired by the Bush Crime Family should be immediately terminated. No exceptions. None. DOJ is the place to start.

There is absolutely no reason for a rational person to hire ANYONE from Robertson and Falwell's faux umiversities and law schools. I wouldn't trust one of those idiots to properly handle a speeding ticket. They are nothing but apparatchik robots unqualified to do anything in the legal profession.

like I plan to, you would fire me too?

Civil service positions exist so that government employees can be free of the threat of politically-motivated firing.

It's the upper-level APPOINTED positions we need to clean up. Not the competetive hires.

is a valuable database for researchers taken in the context of what we know since it was published.

Many of the loyal Bushies on it can be further researched, doubtless there are many criminals at large listed.

2006 WH Salary List by Alexis Simendinger
http://nationaljournal.com/about/njweekly/stories/2006/0711nj1.htm