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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?


To: longnshort who wrote (13045)5/29/2009 3:29:52 PM
From: pompsander1 Recommendation  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 103300
 
As a former DOJ person myself, I don't like this kind of thing from Democrats or Republicans. Last thing we need now is a pendulum swinging the other way in the DOJ after the hugely-politicized Bush Years.

This quote gets it:

Tensions between career lawyers and political appointees inside the Justice Department have been a sensitive matter since allegations surfaced during the Bush administration that higher-ups had ignored or reversed staff lawyers and that some U.S. attorneys had been removed or selected for political reasons.