surprise! surprise! Mukasey Won’t Pursue Charges in Hiring Inquiry

[spanone]

and amerika yawns......all these criminals are going to walk away right into corporate boardrooms across the world

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael Mukasey on Tuesday rejected the idea of criminally prosecuting former Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions, saying he had already taken strong internal steps in response to a “painful” episode.

Two recent reports from the Justice Department inspector general and its internal ethics office have found that about a half-dozen officials at the Justice Department — all but one now gone — systematically rejected candidates with perceived “liberal” backgrounds for what were supposed to be non-political jobs and sought out conservative Republicans.

In a speech Tuesday morning to the American Bar Association in New York, Mr. Mukasey acknowledged that some critics and commentators have called on the Justice Department to take what he called “more drastic steps” in dealing with the scandal, including prosecuting those at fault and firing those hired through flawed procedures.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/12/washington/13justice.html?_r=1&hp=&oref=slogin&pagewanted=print

[Clovis Sangrail]

1. 0.o

“But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime,”

erm... violation of the law is the definition of crime.
how the fuck did this guy get his job???

[spanone]

2. try chuck schumer and dianne feinstien...they backed his nomination

[Warpy]

3. I want to grab him by the tie, get up in his face

and scream, "DO YOUR JOB!!!

Why are we the people paying this lazy boob's salary? Remind me again.

[spanone]

5. it doesn't appear anyone in dc is doing their job

[CitizenPatriot]

4. "episode"?

the
RAPE of our constitution is now an .... episode?

Mukasey, you are a criminal. You have no integrity. Your ethics and morals are in the gutter. Shame shame shame on you.

an episode? is that what you tell a nation who has had their government destroyed by this "episode"?

I am so thoroughly disgusted.

Bush, cheney, Rove, Mukasey, may you rot in a petrified pile of your likeness (I.E., SHIT).