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星期一， 2008年7月28日
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未加工的故事 | 一個新的司法部報告在高級助手認為，政治非法地影響了聘用事業檢察官和移民法官和主要放置責備對前檢察長Alberto Gonzales。

星期一的報告通過歧視挑選部門的前白宮連絡， Monica Goodling，為違犯聯邦法律和司法部政策反對不是共和黨或保守的忠誠的人的求職者。

充分的146頁司法部 報告這裡是可利用的(.pdf)

考慮政治或思想加入是不不正當的在做出聘用的決定為政治位置。 然而，部門政策和聯邦法律根據政治加入在聘用禁止歧視為事業位置。

我們的調查發現Goodling不正當地服從了候選人為某些事業位置對同樣她在候選人使用為政治位置的政治上基於評估，違反聯邦法律和部門政策。

報告不表明Goodling或前Gonzales參謀長Kyle Sampson是否可能面對任何指控。 在差別對待介入的無那些仍然聘用工作在正義，意味他們將避免所有部門懲罰。

眾院司法委員會主席約翰Conyers說他是否辯論提出偽證罪反對報告』牽連了官員，也許說謊了對國會在司法部的政治化的調查期間。

「今天報告描述`系統的』侵害聯邦法律由司法部的幾位前領導」， Conyers在新聞發布說。 「明顯地，政治掩護是很瀰漫的甚而具有資格的共和黨申請人從部門位置被拒绝了，因為他們是足够`不是共和黨人』為Monica Goodling和其他。 報告也講清楚費用到我們的這些明顯的罪行的國家是嚴厲的，因為具有資格的個體為關鍵位置與恐怖主義和其他重要部門工作在戰鬥被拒绝了為沒有原因除政治異想天開之外。 報告也表明Monica Goodling， Kyle Sampson和Alberto Gonzales也許說謊了對國會關於這些事。 我指揮我的職員嚴密回顧這個問題和考慮犯罪提及為偽證是否是需要的」。

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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