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HISTÓRIA CRUA | Um relatório novo do departamento da justiça concli que a política influenciou ilegal empregar de prosecutors da carreira e de juizes do immigration, e coloca pela maior parte a culpa em aides superiores ao Attorney General anterior Alberto Gonzales.

O relatório de segunda-feira escolhe para fora a ligação branca anterior da casa do departamento, Monica Goodling, para violating a política federal do departamento da lei e da justiça discriminando de encontro aos pretendentes do trabalho que não eram loyalists republicanos ou conservadores.

O departamento cheio da justiça de 146 páginas relate está disponível aqui (.pdf)

Não é impróprio considerar afiliações políticas ou ideological em fazer decisões empregando para posições políticas. Entretanto, a política do departamento e a lei federal proíbem a discriminação em empregar para posições da carreira na base de afiliações políticas.

Nossa investigação encontrou que Goodling sujeitou impropriamente candidatos para determinadas posições da carreira ao mesmo avaliação que polìtica baseada se usou em candidatos para posições políticas, na violação da lei e da política federais do departamento.

O relatório não indica se Goodling ou o chefe dos empregados de Gonzales anterior Kyle Sampson poderiam enfrentar quaisquer cargas. Nenhuma daqueles envolvidos no discriminatory empregando ainda o trabalho na justiça, significando evitarão todas as penalidades do departamento.

O presidente Judiciary John Conyers do comitê da casa disse que está debatendo se arquivar cargas do perjúrio de encontro aos relatórios' implicou os oficiais, que podem se ter encontrado ao Congress durante investigações do politicization do departamento da justiça.

“O relatório de hoje descreve violações sistemáticas do `' da lei federal por diversos líderes anteriores do departamento de justiça,” Conyers dito em uma notícia libera-se. “Aparentemente, a seleção política era assim pervasive que mesmo os pretendentes republicanos qualificados estiveram rejeitados das posições do departamento porque eram republicano do `não bastante' para Monica Goodling e outro. O relatório faz também claramente que o custo a nossa nação destes crimes aparentes era severo, porque os indivíduos qualificados foram rejeitados para as posições chaves na luta de encontro ao terrorismo e outros trabalhos críticos do departamento para nenhuma razão à excepção do whim político. O relatório indica também que Monica Goodling, Kyle Sampson, e Alberto Gonzales podem se ter encontrado ao Congress sobre estas matérias. Eu dirigi minha equipe de funcionários rever pròxima esta matéria e considerar se um referral criminal para o perjúrio é needed.”

Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Patrick Leahy used the report to slam the White House.

“Rather than strengthening our national security, the Department of Justice appears to have bent to the political will of the administration,” the Vermont Democrat said in a release sent to reporters Monday morning. “Further, the report reveals that the ‘principal source’ for politically vetted candidates considered for important positions as immigration judges was the White House– a clear indication of the untoward political influence of the Bush administration on traditionally non-political appointments.”

Justice investigators said that Goodling, at least, may lose her license to practice law as a result of the findings.

The report said Gonzales was largely unaware of the hiring decisions by two of his most trusted aides. It also said his aides’ decisions weeded out Democrats and that Goodling also rejected at least one job applicant who was a lesbian.

Leahy accused the political influence of stretching higher into the administration and he suggested top officials were simply trying to pin the blame on underlings.

“Like some in the administration who would place blame for the actions at Abu Ghraib solely onto the shoulders of a few bad apples, the Attorney General has tried to dismiss the Inspector General’s first report on politicization issued last month as documenting the actions of just a few bad apples,” Leahy said. “But it was obvious from that first report, and becomes more so with this second joint IG/OPR report, that the problems of politicization at the Department are rooted deeper than that. In this report, we once again see that the Bush administration has allowed politics to affect and infect the nation’s chief law enforcement agency’s priorities.”

The report marks the culmination of a yearlong investigation by Justice’s Office of Inspector General and Office of Professional Responsibility into whether Republican politics were driving hiring polices at the nation’s premier law enforcement agency that is expected to be above partisan politics. The department’s inspector general is scheduled to testify to the Senate Judiciary Committee Wednesday.

The investigation is one of several that examine accusations of White House political meddling within the Justice Department. Those accusations were initially driven by the firings of nine U.S. attorneys in late 2006 and culminated with Gonzales’ resignation under fire as attorney general last September.

The man who replaced Gonzales, Attorney General Michael Mukasey, said he is “of course disturbed” by the findings.

“I have said many times, both to members of the public and to department employees, it is neither permissible nor acceptable to consider political affiliations in the hiring of career department employees,” Mukasey said in a statement shortly after the report was released Monday morning. “And I have acted, and will continue to act, to ensure that my words are translated into reality so that the conduct described in this report does not occur again at the department.”

With wire reports

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