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 of a larger probe of whether the Bush administration has politicized the DoJ.
“We have heard through intermediaries that current and former Justice Department whistleblowers needed a means to securely and confidentially communicate with the Committee,” Conyers said. “This page is designed to allow those whistleblowers to get the truth about the Department to the American people.”