Bradley Schlozman Admits GOP Loyalty Test For Prospective Prosecutors
By Logan Murphy Monday Sep 10, 2007 9:11am
Via TPM Muckraker:
In written answers to questions from the Senate Judiciary Committee, Bradley Schlozman, the former Justice Department official and U.S. attorney who's been at the center of the firings controversy, admitted that he'd once urged hiring certain prosecutors for his office based on their political affiliation. It's against civil service laws to do so.
But he had a reason, he explains (how good a reason, you can decide for yourself). When serving as the interim U.S. attorney for Kansas City, Schlozman had been unable to hire assistant U.S. attorneys on his own, as Senate-confirmed U.S. attorneys are able to do. For that, he had to go through the central office, or in this case, Monica Goodling, the Department's White House liaison. He'd "heard rumors," he writes,"that Ms. Goodling considered political affiliation in approving hiring decisions for career positions." Goodling, of course, admitted in testimony to Congress that she'd made sure that only Republicans were hired for certain non-political positions.
And so, Schlozman explains, in order to "maximize the chances" of being able to hire his desired candidate, he "once noted the likely political leanings of several applicants" in a conversation with Department officials.
But there was no damage done! Schlozman adds that none of his desired candidates were hired. Read more...
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repub politburo always on the march
Oh well, I committed a crime, but I never got any loot. So no harm done.
Schlozman adds that none of his desired candidates were hired.
Another neo-con winner for you - none of his desired candidates were hired. What a putz.
Hunt Oil signs contract to explore for oil in Iraq
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
By DAVE MICHAELS and ELIZABETH SOUDER / The Dallas Morning News
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"The region as a whole looks very promising," said Jeanne Phillips, a spokeswoman for Hunt Oil, adding that the company does not yet know how much oil its concession could produce.
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/bus/stories/DN-huntdeal_11bu...
You see, I only engaged in illegal activity because I realized that doing so would be helpful to me.
Once again, all that comes to mind is...
"If this had been Clinton...!"
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
Barely mentioned in LameStream - the focus is on the memorials.
L.A. Confidential @ 7:
Which is exactly where the Bush Administration wants your attention to be.
Refuse to be terrorized.
This is “no damage done”?
When the quality of US Attorneys, their skill, ability, and competence, is no longer a factor – only political affiliation, that’s damage. Still the Justice Dept doesn’t get it.
This is like admitting you robbed 15 liquor stores, but since each had empty registers and no money was taken, there’s no damage. IT’S STILL ILLEGAL!
And again, it’s not just the 10-15 attorney’s that were fired because of their lack of political zeal, it’s the other 100 or so that were retained because of theirs. Any way you look at it, this was a political coup taking place in the DOJ.
Whatever Bush wants...
As John Dean stated on KO's show last night, the GOV'T IS BROKEN.
The saying I like is "A fish rots from its head".
Microsoft and General Electric
What a combo
Sitemonitor: Are you going to have an "Open Thread" for comments regarding the
current Senate hearing going on where Gen. P. and Crocker are giving testimony?
No damage done?....
urging hiring certain prosecutors for his office based on their political affiliation...
--> It’s against civil service laws to do so."
No damage Done?
The United States has not had a Legitimate Justice Department since 2000.
The United States has not had a Legitimate Government since 2000.
but at least Schlozman HAD TO SWEAR IN.
UNLIKE Petraeus....
Not many know that Petraeus WAS NOT sworn in yesterday ... and when a CIA agent
yelled out "Swear Him In!" - he was expelled from yesterday's hearing..
http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/091007a.html
The Bush Administration is bleeding terminally.
Expect more "wounded animal" behavior from the White House. This includes desperate measures to get a war started in Iran. It may include a second terrorist attack on our own people orchestrated by Dick Cheney, like the first one was (come on, people, quit pretending you don't know the truth of that statement). We should start calling that guy "Reichstag Rick" in my opinion.
The damage done to the DoJ will be hard to repair, since appointments can be lifetime positions ion the DoJ, and because the Supreme Court is now stacked with partisan religious fanatics.
I don't know if America will ever recover. When the DoJ itself is committed to crime and the Supreme Court, the institution set up to protect the Constitution, is committed to subverting the same Constitution for partisan and religious reasons, we are in deep doo-doo.
The secrecy has to be lifted. Intra-governmental communications have to become public records again. The world needs to see W's communications while he was Governor of Texas. We need to see the proceedings of Cheney's secret energy conference, we need to see the millions of mysteriously "missing" emails. The office of the Vice President should not be a locked vault where information only goes one way.
No more Presidential panels to handle the work of the CIA. Disband Homeland Insecurity, it's a joke.
No more no-bid contracts or favoritism in war zones. No more private-contractor warfare by mercenaries who are unaccountable to the public and doing horrible things in the name of America.
No more religious violence against Muslims in the name of the Crusades (quit pretending you don't know the truth of that, either, folks).
It's time to STOP this crap.
Sounds like Schlozman is slinging the schlock. And some lawyers wonder why many people despise lawyers.
Taarak @ 9:
These people make Tammany Hall look like a bunch of amateurs.
"America Prevails!"
bullshit.
Blame it on the girl... That wicked wicked Monica blah blah blah.... I had to break the law cause she wanted it that way... and this guy still has a piece of paper to practice law??? Seems like really, when ya get right down to it.. The Gambino family values aren't really that much different than these so called republicans and their so called family values....pricks....JD
"House Democratic leaders have decided to postpone a vote on a criminal contempt resolution against White House chief of staff Joshua Bolten and former White House counsel Harriet Miers for several weeks, and possibly longer, according to top lawmakers and aides."
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0907/5750.html
Game. Set. Match. to the White House.
I guess it really doesn't matter who I vote for in 2008....
Is is just me or has the GOP seceded from the union?
20 theWalrus
I buried Paul...
L.A. Confidential @ 4:
it would be more impressive if they built more oil refinneries
tyree @ 23:
It doesn't matter, we're post peak now.
In a few years, oil production will be low enough that will have refinery over capacity again. the oil industry knew that increased refinery capacity wouldn't give a good return on investment.
There seems to be these two countries i find myself living in; The United States of America and The United Right Wing Republicans of America. Now, admitedly the URWRA is a subset of the USA but it seems to be in control of the whole. If, as i do, you find yourself outside this subset then you do not count.
This, by definition, makes this an UnAmerican Activity. We have "evolved" from a country that has (and still does) discriminated on the basis of race, sex and religious affiliation into a country that discriminates on the basis of party affiliation.
We need a strategically thinking and active movement to fight against this UnConstitutional and illegal movement to usurp the civil rights of Americans who do not take the "Loyalty Oath."
And we need to get our shit together very soon.
This is like finding out how Stasi really operated.
Republicans are so authoritarian.
Shadowgm @ 8:
Your last sentence is a wonderful call to arms, so to speak. I'd love to see signs all over the land expressing these words. Your entire post is bang on! Thanks for saying it out loud...
A call to arms is when our amputees come home and have to keep calling up the Steve Austin Prosthetics Inc.
don't tell me the GOP is hazing now
One of the aspects of this story is yet to be spoken of. Hiring republicans ONLY is the general rule across the nation. I bet if you did an honest study of it you would find that the preponderance of underemployed people are Democrats.
Employers are in cahoots with these people. If you're not in "THE PARTY"; you don't work.
It is no different than the U.S.S.R.
Amazing to read of the open admission of politiciation, yet Congress is silent on timely prosecutions. Time to remind Congress and US Attys: Either Prosecute the DOJ Staff; or impeach them. Without enforcing the law, the States are denied their guarantee to a Republican form of government. Republics require enforcement of the law, not excuses to take the law and enforcement off the table.
Yes, this is a war crimes problem. How many GOP prosecutors and DoJ Staff were rewarded for failing to secure war crimes evidence?
These are war crimes-related legal issues. Time for the American public to confront your state level officials: Either they are with the Constitution; or they are with the President's war crimes. State legislators who refuse to support prosecutions can be removed rom office; and State level citizens can find new leadership at the state level.
xoites defends Constitution @ 25:
Some options:
1. Using a writ of mandamus American civilians can lawfully arrest and detain the President and DoJ Staff counsel; then transport them to The Hague for a war crimes trial.
2. Grand Juries at the state level can be empaneled to hear evidence of US government official support of war crimes.
3. State AG's can be contacted to lead efforts to prosecute DoJ Staff, Members of Congress, and the President for war crimes while in office. Members of Congress, by refusing to enforce the Constitution, can be charged by State Officials in Federal Court with denying the States their guarantee to an enforcement mechanism, something required for a Republic.
4. State-regulated legal counsel who block war crimes investigations can be disbarred. Time to confront the Attorney Generals and local prosecutors: Are they going to assert their oath and lead efforts to prosecute US government officials; or are they going to be prosecuted for failing to assert their oath.
The damage is that potential QUALIFIED persons weren't hired because they weren't even considered for the job.
Jesusprice @ 29:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl0wcSsRQf8
theWalrus @ 20:
Damnit.
I just don't get this crap.
Whether he had a "reason" or not is irrelavent to the illegality of it! The judge can weigh that in sentencing Schlozman but the jury must be instructed not to weigh that in convicting him!
Who left Bradley Schlorzman hanging during that high-five?
Didn't Monica Goodling state during the Senate investigation of the US Attorney firings that she pledged allegiance to George Bush twice during her testimony? maybe there is really an oath they make to him in order to get a job.
Did anyone else picture Jim Ward from the Stephanie Miller show saying " ITS THE SCHLOOOOOOZZ.....BRadlYY SCHLOOOOZMAN!"
In any third world country it's called corruption.
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