May 01, 2007

Sampson, Goodling and the Bush (not US) Dept. of Justice

I suppose we should post a link on the news that Kyle Sampson and Monica Goodling were granted by AG Al Gonzalez what amounts to essentially complete hiring and firing authority inside the DOJ. This news was of course a closely guarded secret (apparently even kept from Deputy AG McNulty), and the scope of what's wrong with it almost defies belief. For details, read Hilzoy (I highly recommend the post), but if you are looking for a few lines to summarize the whole ugly affair, how about these?

Waas, whom I've found to be very reliable, quotes his "senior executive branch official familiar with the delegation of authority" as saying that "It was an attempt to make the department more responsive to the political side of the White House and to do it in such a way that people would not know it was going on".

Because if there's one thing that's good for the country obviously it's making, say, the Criminal Division at Justice beholden to the White House. This is just sickening.

Posted by armand at May 1, 2007 12:41 PM | TrackBack | Posted to Politics


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