Nick Juliano, Raw Story Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty came to Congress Thursday looking for a do-over.Former White House liaison Monica Goodling called into question McNulty’s prior statements regarding the firing of at least eight US Attorneys for allegedly political reasons when she testified before Congress last month. Testifying before a House subcommittee, McNulty sought…
By Carol D. Leonnig, Washington Post Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago – over the objections of their immediate supervisors –…
By Klaus Marre, The Hill House Judiciary Committee Chairman John Conyers Jr. (D-Mich.) is inviting career Department of Justice (DoJ) employees to blow the whistle on political appointees, and he has set up a website that will allow them to do so confidentially. Conyers is investigating the 2006 firings of nine U.S. attorneys as part…
by Joel S. Hirschhorn, opednews. The frog-in-boiling water model helps us understand political upheavals: how citizens wake up early enough (or too late) to respond to social and economic oppression. Sometimes the greed and arrogance of Ruling Classes makes them careless and social waters heat too quickly. Sensing doom, alert citizen-frogs escape or revolt. Or…
