Gonzales approved of the political nature of the hiring. He has never said otherwise. He was a political hack appointed to the top job of being America's lawyer...(a point Obama made clear in introducing Holder today...he is not Obama's lawyer, he is America's).
Here is the statement you requested. No denial, no softening of the illegalities found. Acceptance and reform....
How did you miss all this? I have career friends at the DOJ that almost have this framed on their walls..<g>
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Monday, July 28, 2008
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Statement by Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Report Issued by the Office of Professional Responsibility and Inspector General on the Investigation of Allegations of Politicized Hiring by Monica Goodling and Other Staff in the Office of the Attorney General
"Even as I commend the hard work and collaboration of the Justice Department’s Offices of Inspector General and Professional Responsibility on today’s report, I am of course disturbed by their findings that improper political considerations were used in hiring decisions relating to some career employees. 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. 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.
"Over the course of the last year and a half, the Justice Department has made many institutional changes to remedy the problems discussed in today’s report, and the report itself commends these changes. The report includes one new recommendation for institutional change, and I have directed the prompt implementation of that recommendation. It is crucial that the American people have confidence in the propriety of what we do and how we do it, and I will continue my efforts to make certain they can have such confidence."
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