AUGUST 03 2008
1. The partisan injustice at Justice
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1. The partisan injustice at Justice
by Leonard Pitts Jr. of the Miami Herald
....It wasn't just that she asked a question that would have been more
at home on the cover of Tiger Beat. It was that she passed over a
respected prosecutor with almost 20 years of experience for an
important counterterrorism job because his wife was active in
Democratic politics, hiring instead a Republican with three years'
experience. And that she denied one applicant on the suspicion -- the
suspicion, mind you -- that she was a lesbian. And that she jettisoned
yet another because he was a member of the Council on American-
Islamic Relations. And that she ran Internet searches to determine
applicants' political views. And that one of her interview questions
was: ``Why are you a Republican?''
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Karl Rove with Monica Goodling
Goodling was looking for, as she put it in a note, applicants who were suitably conservative on ``god, guns + gays.''
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