There is no doubt we should all be concerned for our children's futures in light of the travesty that has taken place at the Department of Justice.
“If there’s wrongdoing, it will be taken care of,” Mr. Bush said at a Rose Garden news conference, speaking of internal Justice Department inquiries into the dismissals of the United States attorneys and whether politics influenced how lower-level jobs were filled.
Democrats said that Mr. Gonzales’s credibility had been further eroded by the testimony on Wednesday of Monica M. Goodling, a former aide to the attorney general. Testifying under a grant of immunity from prosecution, Ms. Goodling said she had “crossed the line” in using inappropriate political considerations to screen applicants for nonpartisan legal jobs at the Justice Department.
Ms. Goodling's resume consists mostly of her being class president in college. And yet she was responsible for hiring and firings at the DOJ.
And even after a DOJ investigation started it's been revealed that Gonzales talked to her about the investigation and upcoming testimony. Then testified under oath to Congress that no such conversation took place.
However after Ms Goodling's testimony this week it; the DOJ released a statement...
Justice Department officials said that Mr. Gonzales was not seeking to shape her recollections, but was trying to comfort Ms. Goodling at a difficult moment when she was upset at the prospect of giving up her job on his staff.
Bottom line Gonzales clearly has violated the law and lied to Congress under oath.
It speaks volumes of having him at Justice along with Goodling who is too stupid to realize just how used she was. And how little she knew of the law to begin with.
Unlike federal judges, immigration judges are civil service employees, to be appointed by the attorney general based on professional qualifications, not their politics.
In Ms. Goodling’s tenure, vacancies were apparently not always posted and she selected lawyers to be considered for interviews based in part on their loyalty to the Republican Party and the Bush administration, she said in her testimony on Wednesday.
The judges appointed during her tenure include Mark H. Metcalf, a former Justice Department lawyer and Republican Congressional candidate in Kentucky.
Dean Boyd, a Justice Department spokesman, said new procedures had already been put into place, including the advertising of vacancies and the initial review of applicants by the office of the chief immigration judge.
“There is no disagreement within the department, including between the civil division and the office of legal counsel, about whether the civil service laws apply to the appointment of immigration judges,” Mr. Boyd said in a statement, disputing a claim by Ms. Goodling that political views of the applicants could be considered. “They do apply.”
And lets not forget Gonzales rush to Ashcroft's bedside to get him to sign off on the illegal wiretap program. Or the suspension of habeas corpus last November.
We should all be concerned for our children's future. This admin can essentially now lock them up and throw away the key. And their isn't a damn thing anyone can do about it.
The Bill of Rights has been run through the shredder and all congress has to offer is a No confidence vote now put off till next month.
The House should be impeaching the bastard NOW! A third grader could draw up the bill of impeachment.
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