Josh Marshall explains that the sudden spate of progress on a bajillion Republican corruption investigations is a result of Gonzales’ Department of Justice suddenly being unable to obstruct them any more.
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Open source, procurement, and gov tech.
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There has to be an element of the professional career employees at Justice finally being able to do their jobs. If by no other means, they could have just decided on their own, absent leadership, to cross the line on the side of the truth.
Well, that’s the hope, Mark. I don’t really have any friends at Justice anymore, but I’d not be entirely surprised if vast swaths have already been replaced by Monica Goodling clones. If so, we’ll suffer those consequences long beyond this administration.
Entirely surprised? Don’t be at all surprised.
Recent C’ville piece:
http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=1992601070830476&ShowArticle_ID=11041304074560044
Salient quote:
John Ashcroft […] changed DOJ’s hiring practices in
2003, taking the responsibility of interviewing and
vetting potential Justice employees away from veteran
civil servants and giving it to Bush political
appointees instead.
Almost overnight, the number of government lawyers hired
from hoity-toity Ivy League schools plummeted, while law
school graduates from conservative Southern schools
(like Regent) began pouring into such traditionally
liberal DOJ enclaves as the Civil Rights Division.