Friday, August 24, 2007
Another bad apple at Justice
Ah, for the good old days of Warren G. Harding, when we had an honest government....
The New York Times
August 24, 2007
Civil Rights Division Head Resigning at Justice Dept.
By PHILIP SHENON
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/washington/24resign.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division announced Thursday that he was resigning, the latest in a long string of departures from the department in the midst of a furor over the leadership of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
The department said that the resignation of the official, Assistant Attorney General Wan J. Kim, had nothing to do with the recent controversies over Mr. Gonzales’s performance, and that Mr. Kim had been planning his departure for months.
His departure was announced on the same day that department officials confirmed that a senior official who preceded Mr. Kim in running the civil rights division, Bradley J. Schlozman, had also resigned.
In Senate testimony two months ago, Mr. Schlozman, who was interim director of the division in 1993, acknowledged that he had actively recruited conservative Republican applicants to work in the division and that he had rewritten the performance evaluations of career lawyers who were not considered loyal to the Bush administration.
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Mr. Gonzales saluted Mr. Kim in a statement, saying he would miss Mr. Kim’s “honest opinions and valuable contributions as an adviser to me.”
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The New York Times
August 24, 2007
Civil Rights Division Head Resigning at Justice Dept.
By PHILIP SHENON
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/washington/24resign.html?_r=1&th=&oref=slogin&emc=th&pagewanted=print
WASHINGTON, Aug. 23 — The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division announced Thursday that he was resigning, the latest in a long string of departures from the department in the midst of a furor over the leadership of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
The department said that the resignation of the official, Assistant Attorney General Wan J. Kim, had nothing to do with the recent controversies over Mr. Gonzales’s performance, and that Mr. Kim had been planning his departure for months.
His departure was announced on the same day that department officials confirmed that a senior official who preceded Mr. Kim in running the civil rights division, Bradley J. Schlozman, had also resigned.
In Senate testimony two months ago, Mr. Schlozman, who was interim director of the division in 1993, acknowledged that he had actively recruited conservative Republican applicants to work in the division and that he had rewritten the performance evaluations of career lawyers who were not considered loyal to the Bush administration.
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Mr. Gonzales saluted Mr. Kim in a statement, saying he would miss Mr. Kim’s “honest opinions and valuable contributions as an adviser to me.”
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