By Dan Froomkin, washingtonpost.com
Yesterday brought considerably more evidence of direct White House involvement in the overt politicization of the Justice Department — not only in terms of purging U.S. attorneys who may have been considered insufficiently partisan in their pursuit of criminal cases, but also in terms of filling career positions with attorneys who passed a political litmus test.
Dan Eggen and Amy Goldstein write in The Washington Post: “The Justice Department has launched an internal investigation into whether Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales’s former White House liaison illegally took party affiliation into account in hiring career federal prosecutors, officials said yesterday.
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