Why is this woman not in jail? How many scummy little Repukeliscum toads are in the DoJ damaging the mission of that Department and implementing Repukeliscum Party policy in the guise of Justice?

I heard DOJ is also investigating Gonzo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.

DOJ is still hopelessly corrupt and a worthless laughing stock of an institution. A shell of what it once was. Unless and until DOJ purges itself of all the Regent U Law jesus freaks that were brought on board at during the last 7 years, nothing will change. These folks would have never made it into DOJ if competence mattered and, without the corruption's helping hand, they would be splitting time being the assistant youth director at the local baptist church somewhere in Kentucky/West Virginia and serving as the local librarian, all while being crushed by the debt associated with loans to pay for the low level law school education they received at good 'ol Regents U.

According to the WP: "Recipients(of the questionaire) are also asked to say whether White House aides participated in the interviews and to confirm if they were asked "what kind of conservative you were (law and order; social; fiscal)."

Hence the departure of Rove and his staff. And hence the departure of just about everyone in the DOJ who might have anything to do with hiring, including Gonzo. They all had to step down to spend more time with their lawyers.

Hey everyone,

Can we please file away "Repukeliscum" next to "lie-berals" and "AmeriKKKa" in the "credibility destroying turns of phrase" pile sometime soon? I've been seeing it a little too much lately in posts I'm otherwise on-board with, and all the eye-rolling is giving me headaches.

Agree, she's not in jail because she's Christian, GOP, blond, Nordic and Aryan and fit to breed with other blond beast-of-prey GOP, Christian males and members of ze New Order.
Sisyphus

Yes, how exactly is the Bush DOJ going to properly and truthfully investigate Gonzo and Rove's connections to the DOJ? Not gonna happen. They'll whitewash this and the report will be released on a Friday night just prior to Bush leaving office. Dems will drop the issue and move on.

I'm sure the Bush loyalists know the correct answers to those survey questions. What crap.

So they're interviewing DOJ hires.
What I'd like to see, is them interview DOJ applicants who DIDN'T get hired!
Think there may be some interesting statistical anomalies, there?

**I heard DOJ is also investigating Gonzo. Yeah, yeah, yeah, whatever.**

actually, i suspect it's a ploy to avoid the appointment of a truly independent prosecutor -- cause, you know, there's already an ongoing investigation...

Okay, so the IG gets answers to these questions, with details, etc. - So what? A Democratically controlled congress got answers and nothing happened; why would anything happen if a Bush appointee gets answers?

Seems to me, the only reason anyone wants the information is to establish precedents for future administrations. There have been investigations and admission of wrongdoing by people in and out of government, associated with everything from the attacks on 9/11, to the Iraq war (overcharging for services, misplacing billions of dollars, bribes, and so on), to misappropriated money intended for Katrina victims
to rigged voting machines, and the list is interminable. But nothing ever happens to correct the situation, no one is punished, and NOTHING CHANGES. THERE'S NO OUTRAGE. Whatever crimes georgejr and his henchmen and cronies commit continue to be tolerated, even aided and abetted at times, by a congress willing to pass laws making their their crimes legal. It boggles the mind.

She's not in jail because she didn't commit a crime. Everyone who says she should be in jail should at least bother to identify the crime she committed.

Thank you Paul, and everyone at TPM, for working day after day to keep us informed. Your ongoing efforts play a real role in any steps in the right (sorry, that should be correct) direction.

Apparently, Bush's Alice in Wonderland reality is dissolving in the face of truth and facts. And his playing cards have all resigned, to spend time at their respective law firms back in the real world.

According to § 2302(b) of title 5 of the United States Code (U.S.C.) an employer is prohibited to "(1) discriminate against an employee or applicant based on race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, handicapping condition, marital status, or political affiliation"

Here are 2 pieces of info to add to the current/future puzle...
1. Not true the Admin. is totally antigay..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Israel_Hernandez
( former Rove ass't)

2. Looks like Bush & Co. digging in for long long term, AEB ( as evidenced by)
George Bush School of Government and Public Service at Texas A&M offering, besides Govrnment courses, Homeland security degrees.
Yep, a bright future awaits in perpetual fear mongering.
Wiki George Bush School of Government and Public Service .

sheesh

As far as specific crimes go, this was civil service, not just any employer. So even by asking she has broken the law:

"No person employed in the executive branch of the Federal Government who has authority to take or recommend any personnel action with respect to any person who is an employee in the competitive service or any eligible or applicant for a position in the competitive service shall
make any inquiry concerning the race, political affiliation or religious beliefs of any such employee, eligible, or applicant. All disclosures concerning such matters shall be ignored, except as to such membership in political parties or organizations as constitutes by law a disqualification for Government employment."

I think we should be discussing how to get rid of Pelosi. Of all the Democrats enpowered by the '06 elections, she is the one given the power and mandate to stop the madness.

She has done nothing. She could stop appropriations from making it to the floor. She could start impeachment procedings.

It seems clear to me that she is cynically using the bad press on the Republican Crime Family merely to acquire more and permanent power, rather than to seek justice or do the people's bidding.

If we don't send these bastards to jail, they will have got away with it, and that only encourages them to do it again, just as the pardon of Nixon allowed our current nightmare to occur.

The blame for this lays at the feet of the Speaker and nobody else. She's as guilty as Delay.

To Bill Arney. I agree about Pelosi. She thinks she has a plan. She wants the Republicans to hang themselves and they will, but at what cost in innocent blood and widespread misery? She obviously does not take that into the equation. Also, I think a lot of these people will be prosecuted, not impeached but prosecuted, after George Bush leaves office (assuming he does leave office, which is a big assumption) because he will just pardon them on his way out the door. For example: Scooter Libby. For now, he has just had his sentence commuted but you can bet he will be pardoned later. In about 16 months. He was promised that. That's why he never dumped on the capo. The big danger with waiting to prosecute until after the elections is that the Dems may weaken (not an impossible scenario) and decide "in the spirit of bipartisanship" to just let it go and let them walk; or Bush may decide NOT to leave office, dissolve Congress and establish an actual dictatorship instead of a de facto one; or, given the level of disgust most liberals have with the Dems in Congress right now, the Republicans just might take back Congress. I'm glad I left the US right after Bush's first election. It's scary even from over here.

so why is this being investigated by an internal DoJ team, rather than an independent prosecutor? isn't there a glaringly obvious conflict of interest?

Attention All Trolls :
Speaker Pelosi is getting all of the Democratic Ducks in a row for the coming Impeachment of self appointed "Prime Minister " Cheney. Speaker Pelosi cannot come out and openly call for Cheney's removal -she is next in line for his job. So look listen & learn over the coming maybe three months max - Cheney wil be Impeached by the Congress & then the VEEP stands a good chance of being convicted in the Senate. The charges wil revolve around the illegal TSP data mining activity that VEEP sent Gonzo & Card over to the hospitialized Ashcroft to sign off on as legal . Please Trolls of all stripes remember that Comey , & Mueller were there & both of them will throw the VEEP under the bus when it comes out that the BushcO was using the TSP /TIA / and other programs (think illegal security letters ) TO SPY ON POLITICAL OPPONENTS - among other nefarious uses of this illegal domestic spying . Think CoiNTERPOL on steriods.
And my dear TrollPosse never ever forget that all this wil be played out in the context of a no-holds barred election cycle. And further my dear TrollPosse know that there are many ,many, career G-14's from every Agency in the DC Foggy Bottom that will provide many ,many, damamging leaks to help take down BushcO -a good example of that is the recent GAO 'leak ' of the Sept Assessment of the Iraqi Benchmarks not being met. This was before the VEEP's shop could rewrite the report from Gen Petraues's staff.
And so it will end with BushcO HELD ACCOUNTABLE prior to these NeoCons ne'er do wells leaving D.C.
And there will be criminal charges filed after Dubya leaves office.
So Bill Arney buck up buddy - we are going to win this battle -Civics 101 - tell us we will- especially when the moderate GOP Senators realize that they will loose their election in 2008 if they defend the VEEP -
Patience is a Virtue , and Revenge is a dish best served cold ( Don't believe the Trolls - believe the FBI Chief of Station San Diego who resigned over the firing of Carol Lam- the chief said it was political firing - he then was then debriefed by the Hill Staffers-)
Oh yeah Trolls ya'll hang around its going to be a party ..

Posted by: Al in Austex
Date: August 31, 2007 8:47 PM

I hope you are right, however, past (in)actions seem to to indicate future non(performance).

"But nothing ever happens to correct the situation, no one is punished, and NOTHING CHANGES. THERE'S NO OUTRAGE. Whatever crimes georgejr and his henchmen and cronies commit continue to be tolerated, even aided and abetted at times, by a congress willing to pass laws making their their crimes legal. It boggles the mind.
Posted by: judyinnm
Date: August 31, 2007 12:37 PM"

Judy, Judy, Judy,

Please don't lose sight of the Senate and House investigations. They are not simply exercises, and they most certainly are not evidence of a "do-nothing" Congress.

The frustrating problem is that to do the process correctly, it takes time for investigation, time for questioning at hearings, time for private sessions to coordinate all the activities of the various committees, and time to deliberate on the most effective and watertight actions to take. We see only a tiny piece of the process. Don't for a moment think that this isn't all coordinated by every chair and significant member of each and every committee.

And feel your outrage. I'm feeling my outrage. WE--all of us--are the appropriate people to feel, and then express, outrage.

Instead of complaining about a lack of progress, we need to encourage the committees (who have got to feel a level of frustration that makes ours look like Tinkertoys®, what with all the obstruction they encounter) by writing and calling with support AND impatience. Keep bugging them and say that you want results. This will keep them going without their feeling like giving up. Hey, these are, after all, politicians, and if their constituents seem not to care, that could be the excuse to give up.

Punishments will come. But, to learn from the case of Scooter Libby, it's best if the hammer falls after Bush is gone. Think you're pissed off now? Just think how you'll feel if all these miscreants get pardoned!

PJ White,
Yes an argument can be made that we have had a coup here , but the remedy -at this point in time - is to make sure our federal checks & balances really do work - Roberta is right as rain , there is much much more going on behind the scenes- lEAHEY , Schumer & Conyers are not the dummies that the Trolls would have us believe. We undue this particular coup by our political processes-
But Mr.White should the President actually physically try to keep Congress from convening -well thats when we open up that Texas sized can of 2nd Amendment protected whup ass- You can rest assured that We the People will not see our rights taken without a fierce fight - Remember too that there are many many US citizens on the right /conservative side of our politics who would also join in to stop the NeoCons from an actual putsche. Once again I would refer readers back to the fact that ex Congressman Barr , introduced former VP Al Gore - when two or three years ago Gore gave an impassioned speech regarding the current assualt on our civil liberties.
I don't give a rat's behind how many Blackwater/Titan mercs that the "President who would be king " brings to the putsche attempt - we will still out number them - & I promise you we will not be out gunned in that confrontation -( Just for fun -if you can find AleX Jones on the "INTERNETS" -the right wingnuts there will agree with everything I just posted- )
Meanwhile Mr White,- have more faith in the DemocratiC Leadership-AND IF YOU DO DECIDE TO SEND MONEY TO THE Green Party -make sure its not actually a neocon PAC "false flag "operation. -Senator Macaca Santorum had one such operation back last election cycle. And oh if you see Nader over there pls send my regards -and tell him we sure could have used those thousand of votes he garnered in fLORIDA in 2000.

I am more worried about those hired that answered those questions correctly, as I am sure they are incapable of performing DOJ jobs without bias. Where are they, and how do we get rid of these intolerant and too-religious crazed weasels.

TPM and Muckraker - you are the best! Great reporting and great writing!

Bill in Chicago,
Do you really need to make positive comments about Nazis in order to make your point? I doubt it.