Don't you just love it when we're proven right - Justice Department weighed prosecutors' politics

[ck4829]

The Justice Department weighed political activism and membership in a conservative law group in evaluating the nation's federal prosecutors, documents released in the probe of fired U.S. attorneys show.

The political credentials were listed on a chart of 124 U.S. attorneys nominated since 2001, a document that could bolster Democrats' claims that the traditionally independent Justice Department has become more partisan during the Bush administration.

The chart was included in documents released Friday by the department to congressional panels investigating whether the firings last year of the U.S. attorneys were politically motivated — an inquiry that has Attorney General Alberto Gonzales fighting for his own job.

"This is the chart that the AG requested," Monica Goodling, Justice's former liaison to the White House, wrote in a Feb. 12 e-mail to two other senior department officials. "I'll show it to him on the plane tomorrow, if he's interested."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070414/ap_on_go_ca_st_pe/fired_prosecutors

[MadMaddie]

1. It's simply stunning....Monica Goodling knew she was screwed...

and she knew from the beginning she was going down...pleading the 5th, getting a defense attorney.....

My oh my how the Mighty have lied and how they are falling by the wayside.....

[Kagemusha]

2. Y'know, weighing politics is not a crime. Only lying about it under oath is.

If they'd just told the ugly truth there'd be no consequences whatsoever.