It is unlikely anyone will be prosecuted for the violations of civil service laws in the hiring of career lawyers in the U.S. Justice Department, but that does not diminish the seriousness of what occurred.
An internal investigation of the hiring practices, triggered by last years political firing of eight federal prosecutors, lays out in shocking detail how the Justice Department under President Bush went beyond past practice in establishing a litmus test for securing employment. The test was based on a simple proposition: Liberals need not apply. ...
Indeed, U.S. attorneys are political appointees and work at the will of the president. ...
But what the Bush administration has done, not only with the firings of the eight last year, but in the screening of applicants for civil service positions is set a new standard for politicizing hirings at Justice.
In so doing, decision-makers deprived the nation of some of the best and the brightest young legal minds in the country. ...
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