Report: Politics influenced hiring at U.S. Justice Department
The Justice Department has been recruiting law students based on "political and ideological factors" for the past six years, according to a report from the agency's Inspector General's office.
According to the New York Times:
The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over the firings of nine United States attorneys. It appeared to confirm for the first time in an official examination many of the allegations from critics who charged that the Justice Department had become overly politicized during the Bush administration.
One of those fired U.S. attorneys was, of course, former New Mexico prosecutor David Iglesias, who has been out and about publicizing his new book on the scandal.
The Inspector General's report released Tuesday is based on the review of thousands of e-mail messages and interviews with current and former officials. It concludes that the Justice Department "undermined confidence in the integrity of the department's hiring processes," the Washington Post reported.
The Justice Department sometimes rejected law students applying for prestigious honors or intern programs, because of perceived liberal leanings or ties to Democrats, auditors found.
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