Michael Roston, rawstory.com
Senator Patrick Leahy (D-VT) kicked off this morning’s hearing with Attorney General Alberto Gonzales by warning that the Justice Department faced “a crisis of leadership perhaps unrivaled in its 137 year history,” and warned of “Katrina-style cronyism” in the Department’s hiring practices.
The Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman warned of politicization in the prosecution of cases and hiring, as well as the lack of experience among leadership, and subsequent “rising crime, abandonment of civil rights and voting rights enforcement.”
“The Department of Justice may be losing its way,” he said. “The Department of Justice should never be turned into another political arm of the White House, this White House or any White House.”