http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25348796/

A new audit concludes that rookie attorneys with Republican roots got interviewed for plum Justice Department jobs while their liberal-leaning counterparts got passed over.

The Justice Department audit released Tuesday found that a screening program installed in 2002 weeded out job applicants who had liberal or Democratic ties. Improper use of the screening program peaked in 2006, when politics and ideology disqualified what the audit called a significant number of newly graduated lawyers and summer interns seeking jobs.

The long-awaited report confirms widespread criticism last year that the once fiercely independent Justice Department was victim to political meddling by the Bush administration. The scandal led to the resignation last September of former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

It found that such disqualifications "constituted misconduct and also violated the department's policies and civil service law that prohibit discrimination in hiring based on political or ideological affiliation."

There is NO end to the sleaziness and underhandedness of the Bush Administration.

Many of these conservative US Justice Department lawyers are graduates of Pat Robertson’s Regent University Law School. Could you imagine a "career" US Justice Department lawyer who graduated from this crackpot university weighing in on matters of civil rights or religious freedom? Bob Jones University is bad enough, but Pat Robertson’s Regents University Law School as a farm team for the US Justice Department? It makes me cringe. Could you imagine having Jay Sekulow as your law school advisor? Or mandatory membership in the Federalist Society? How pretty is that?

And there is your packing the courts right there. A deliberate move to consolidate power then exploit it for financial and political gain.

It absolutely has nothing to do with serving our better interests.

Think about that Republicans.

It always strikes me funny, when the cons around here have no arguement, they say nothing.

I'm so sick of Republicans constantly denying what the truth is, only to have it proven that we were right to have questioned motives, tactics, results, information, quotes, resources, agendas, speech content, administration appointees, lack of oversight, constitution violations, cronyism, WAR, underselling of the truth, over selling of the lies. I'm glad I'm not hearing shit form The Cons on this. They's try and defend it, then, when backed into a corner, suddenly find Jesus and disavow having ever supported the idea.

Fuck. I am so sick of it.

This recent finding is just the tip of the iceberg. I am also sick of it.

It's all the same thing; " We're gonna just go ahead and do what we want. Heck, we may even get caught, I cannot tell you how little we care about that."

This administration has done more to cause people to question God more than anything in my lifetime. Everything they have done has backfired to such a degree that I am honestly beginning to cite it as proof of God. There is no way they would try all their shit, get so caught, lie about it all, only to have it shown that they are lying if there was no God. There must be a God.

And it really looks like he's a Democrat. Hey, I'm just as shocked as you. But how else could you explain it? And because I cannot think of any other way to explain it, it must be God.

Right?

Right.

Yeah. Republicans really blew it.

The same thing happened in the Reagan administration.

This is how these people work. They will lie, cheat, and steal to advance their agenda. It's all part of their "ends justifying the means" culture.

Yep.

I just don't get that either. It's an absolute known fallacy, yet there it is, every day.

Must be something in the water.

And talk about moral relativism!

How can one claim an absolute of any kind, when their belief system is self-referential, and they accept circular logic as being valid?

ie: Bible & Ends Justify Means.