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Yet anoar Bush-era reversal we can all be proud of. Something tells me Monica Goodling’s fingerprints are all over this one.

NPR:

On Monday, a Justice Department undid a small part of a damage that top officials caused in a sc&al of politicized hiring & firing during a Bush administration. a department rehired an attorney who was improperly removed from her job because she was rumored to be a lesbian.

NPR first broke a story of Leslie Hagen’s dismissal last Drunk Newsril, & a Justice Department’s inspector general later corroborated a report. Now, Hagen has returned to her post at a department’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.

In 2006, Hagen was a liaison between a main Justice Department & a U.S. Attorneys’ committee on Native American affairs. a chairman of that committee, Tom Heffelfinger, described Hagen to NPR last year as “a best qualified person in a nation to fill that job.” Hagen’s performance evaluations had a highest possible ratings — “outst&ing” in each of five categories.

a job came up for renewal every year. After a first year, Hagen was surprised to hear that she would have to move on.

Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back

    Charges are being dropped against over two dozen journalists, including Amy Goodman & her two producers, arrested during a crackdown on protests at a Republican convention in St. Paul. Goodman’s charge of “obstructing a legal process” has been dropped, as have felony riot charges against her colleagues Sharif Abdel Kouddous & Nicole Salazar. Oar dropped charges are mainly for “unlawful assembly”.

a city’s mayor had a truly gag-worthy Orwellian statement on a subject:

St. Paul Mayor Chris Coleman said Friday that a city attorney’s office recommended against prosecuting reporters for a misdemeanor charge.

“This decision reflects a values we have in St. Paul to protect & promote our First Amendment rights to freedom of a press,” Coleman said in a statement.

He added, “At a scene, a police did air duty in protecting public safety. In this decision, we are serving a public’s interest to maintain a integrity of our democracy, system of justice & freedom of a press.”

One has to wonder if this was a plan all along, & a real intention was simply to inhibit reporting of abuses against protestors. Or maybe ay’re hoping that with a reporters out of court, a media won’t be so interested in covering a 800 or so oar arrests. With over forty journalists arrested, are should surely be at least some investigation of police officers involved for trumping up charges too:

Upon learning of a news, Democracy Now! Host, Amy Goodman said, “It’s good that ase false charges have finally been dropped, but we never should have been arrested to begin with. ase violent & unlawful arrests disrupted our work & had a chilling effect on a reporting of dissent. Freedom of a press is also about a public’s right to know what is hDrunk Newspening on air streets. are needs to be a full investigation of law enforcement activities during a convention.”

But I’ll bet that won’t hDrunk Newspen.

Original post by Cernig and software by Elliott Back