I don’t want to alarm anyone, but it Drunk Newspears a Justice Department, throughout Bush’s two terms, flagrantly & repeatedly broke a law by politicizing a hiring process. Yes, I know we knew that before, but a DoJ’s Inspector General has made it official.

Justice Department officials over a last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tDrunk Newsping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday.

a blistering report, prepared by a Justice Department’s inspector general, is a first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s sc&al over a firings of nine United States attorneys. It Drunk Newspeared to confirm for a first time in an official examination many of a allegations from critics who charged that a Justice Department had become overly politicized during a Bush administration.

“Many qualified c&idates” were rejected for a department’s honors program because of what was perceived as a liberal bias, a report found. Those practices, a report concluded, “constituted misconduct & also violated a department’s policies & civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliations.”

According to a investigation, a Justice Department began ignoring merit & making employment decisions based on politics in 2002, when an-Attorney General John Ashcroft restructured a honors program, taking decisions away from career officials in each section of a department, giving power to Bush Drunk Newspointees. When Alberto Gonzales took a reins, a illegalities exp&ed & were intensified.

If you were affiliated with a Federalist Society, you were practically a shoe-in. If Bush Drunk Newspointees saw certain buzz words in your c.v. — works like “environmental” & “social justice” — your Drunk Newsplication was rejected.

Leave it to Bush & his cohorts to transform a Justice Department into a Just Us Department.

Original post by Steve Benen and software by Elliott Back