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No Charges for Biased Justice Officials: Mukasey

Former employees have already faced internal consequences, AG says

New York Times New York Times Aug 12, 08 2:33 PM CDT
(Newser) - Michael Mukasey said today the ex-Justice Department employees who discriminated against candidates in hiring for political reasons will not face criminal charges, the New York Times reports. Prosecution would be inappropriate, the AG said, because the biased hiring practices violated federal civil service law, not criminal law. More »

More about:  Michael Mukasey • Attorney General • lawyer • discrimination • Justice Department • conservatives • Monica Goodling • prosecutors • bias

US Attorney:
I Was Fired Over Gay Rumors

Official speaks out after damning report on key Gonzales aides

Los Angeles Times Los Angeles Times Jul 29, 08 10:37 AM CDT
(Newser) - One of the US attorneys fired in the 2006 sweep by Alberto Gonzales' Justice Department says she believes rumors of a lesbian relationship with a top prosecutor cost her the job and derailed the prosecutor’s career. “I am persuaded with deep regret that this is what was the basis,” Margaret Chiara told the Los Angeles Times after yesterday’s damning report by the department’s inspector general. More »

More about:  Alberto Gonzales • Justice Department • US attorney firings • Monica Goodling • bias

Justice Dept. Hiring Practices Illegal: Report

Gonzales aides judged high-level applicants
by their politics

Washington Post Washington Post Jul 28, 08 12:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Alberto Gonzales’ Justice Department illegally discriminated against applicants for career positions based on political considerations, a new report by the department's inspector general finds. Gonzales’ White House liaison Monica Goodling routinely violated civil service laws by asking "What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?," the Washingon Post reports. More »

More about:  Alberto Gonzales • Michael Mukasey • Justice Department • Monica Goodling • political appointee

OPINION

Separation of Powers? Leave Prez's BlackBerry Out of It

Scrutiny on email deprives executive of key communications tool—though not Congress

Weekly Standard Weekly Standard Jun 9, 08 4:28 PM CDT
(Newser) - The 44th president will almost certainly kick off his term by quitting email cold turkey, Jamie Sneider writes in the Weekly Standard . With executive-branch communication subject to public-disclosure law, President Bush hasn't send a single message, the former White House aide says—a coping mechanism that "fails to strike the right balance." More »

More about:  Dick Cheney • Karl Rove • email • BlackBerry • executive privilege • Monica Goodling • Executive Branch • Presidential Records Act

Justice Dept. Will Investigate Whether Gonzales Lied

US attorney firings probe will expand

Washington Post Washington Post Aug 31, 07 10:56 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department will investigate whether Alberto Gonzales gave misleading testimony to Congress, including whether he lied about the NSA's warrantless wiretapping program and the US attorney firings. Inspector General Glenn Fine has alerted Congress to an expanded internal probe into the actions of the lame-luck AG, the Washington Post reports. More »

Elle Woods,
Is That You?

Slate's legal correspondent is tougher on Dems than they were on Goodling

Slate Slate May 24, 07 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Monica Goodling cleared a very low bar in her Congressional testimony yesterday, Slate 's Dahlia Lithwick argues, and she can thank the Democrats who questioned her for making her look good. The majority members of the House Judiciary Committee, "in expecting to question the Great Exploding Idiot Barbie," Lithwick writes, were "completely underprepared and overmatched." More »

Ex-Justice Aide Points Fingers

Deputy AG was 'not fully candid,' Goodling tells House committee

Bloomberg Bloomberg May 23, 07 1:26 PM CDT
(Newser) - The deputy attorney general dissembled in his Senate testimony about the US attorney firings, Monica Goodling told a House committee today. Testifying under limited immunity from prosecution, the AG's former White House liaison said Paul McNulty's account was "incomplete or inaccurate" and accused him of "downplaying" the White House's role in the firings. More »

More about:  scandals • Karl Rove • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Harriet Miers • Monica Goodling • Senate hearings • Paul McNulty

Comey Defends Fired Attorneys

Most were strong performers, former deputy AG tells
House panel

The Hill The Hill May 4, 07 8:52 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most of the U.S. attorneys axed en masse by the Justice Department last year weren't underperforming, former Deputy Attorney General James Comey told a House panel yesterday. Comey, who left Justice over a year before the firings, said he'd rated the attorneys' performance for Chief of Staff Kyle Sampson in 2005. More »

Gonzales Aide Probed for Political Hiring

Goodling accused of screening prosecutors for party affiliation

Washington Post Washington Post May 3, 07 6:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Justice Department is investigating whether Monoica Goodling, the former aide to Alberto Gonzales recently given immunitiy to testify before Congress, illegally used party loyalty as a criteria in hiring federal prosecutors. Goodling's position involved reviewing applications for prosecutors; it's a violation of federal law to consider political affiliation in hiring for nonpolitical jobs. More »

Democrats Dole Out Subpoenas

Congress gets tough on U.S. attorneys players—and calls Condi in to talk Iraq

The Hill The Hill Apr 26, 07 8:58 AM CDT
(Newser) - The Democratic Congress flexed its oversight muscle today, with both houses dishing out subpoenas all the way up to Condi Rice. A House committee subpoenaed the Secretary of State to discuss the lead-up to the Iraq War, while both the House and Senate Judiciary Committees summoned aides involved in the U.S. attorney firings. More »

Regent Grads Score Big On Bush Team

Christian law school
has direct route into Justice Department

Boston Globe Boston Globe Apr 10, 07 7:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - Regent University, the evangelical college founded by Pat Robertson that  graduated disgraced Gonzales aide Monica Goodling, has quietly become a huge source of like-minded talent for the Bush administration: Despite its marginal academic credentials, 150 Regent University alumni have been placed in federal positions since 2001. More »

More about:  Bush administration • Christianity • Attorney General • John Ashcroft • Monica Goodling • Pat Robertson • Regent University

Third Gonzales
Aide Resigns

Monica Goodling resigns after
declining to testify on dismissals
of U.S. attorneys

New York Times New York Times Apr 7, 07 7:21 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gonzales aide Monica Goodling resigned yesterday, a little more than a week after she plead the fifth rather than testify before a Senate committee about the Justice Department's firing of eight U.S. attorneys, the Times reports. Democrats had hoped Goodling, who was Justice's liaison to  the White House, would provide details about Karl Rove's role in the dismissals. More »

More about:  Bush administration • Democrats • White House • Department of Justice • Karl Rove • Alberto Gonzales • US attorney • Monica Goodling

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