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08-16-2008, 04:03 AM
No criminal prosecutions are planned for former Justice Department officials accused of allowing politics to influence the hiring of prosecutors, immigration judges and other career government lawyers, Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Tuesday.
Mukasey used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed to stop illegal hiring practices during the tenure of his predecessor, Alberto Gonzales.
But, he told delegates to the American Bar Association annual meeting, "Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. In this instance, the two joint reports found only violations of the civil service laws."
Other intrusions of Bush administration politics into department hirings and firings remain under investigation. Justice officials say the attorney general's remarks do not preclude criminal prosecutions if wrongdoing is found in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the hiring practices in the department's civil rights division.
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Mukasey "used his sharpest words," criticizing the villains?
Wow... that's a kind of kid-glove approach, don't you think?
By the way, Attorney General - in this case there wouldn't be "two wrongs" if you fired anyone that shouldn't have been hired in the first place.
Without firing the illegally hired justice dept employees, what is being done to remedy this miscarriage of justice?
NOTHING - THAT'S WHAT.
Those that broke the law got what they wanted - GOP hacks filling in the department's ranks, and darned it all to hell if they didn't just simply got away with it.
This is just another classic example of why ALL Republicans have to be voted out and removed from the American political landscape.
Let the Libertarians take their place - the U.S. has had enough of these villains' shenanigans. SEE YOU IN ST PAUL!!!
Mukasey used his sharpest words yet to criticize the senior leaders who took part in or failed to stop illegal hiring practices during the tenure of his predecessor, Alberto Gonzales.
But, he told delegates to the American Bar Association annual meeting, "Not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime. In this instance, the two joint reports found only violations of the civil service laws."
Other intrusions of Bush administration politics into department hirings and firings remain under investigation. Justice officials say the attorney general's remarks do not preclude criminal prosecutions if wrongdoing is found in the firing of nine U.S. attorneys in 2006 and the hiring practices in the department's civil rights division.
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Mukasey "used his sharpest words," criticizing the villains?
Wow... that's a kind of kid-glove approach, don't you think?
By the way, Attorney General - in this case there wouldn't be "two wrongs" if you fired anyone that shouldn't have been hired in the first place.
Without firing the illegally hired justice dept employees, what is being done to remedy this miscarriage of justice?
NOTHING - THAT'S WHAT.
Those that broke the law got what they wanted - GOP hacks filling in the department's ranks, and darned it all to hell if they didn't just simply got away with it.
This is just another classic example of why ALL Republicans have to be voted out and removed from the American political landscape.
Let the Libertarians take their place - the U.S. has had enough of these villains' shenanigans. SEE YOU IN ST PAUL!!!