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underpants

(182,829 posts)
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 09:45 AM Jun 2017

"Loyalty oaths" - have we forgotten Monica Goodling's DoJ whiteboard?



On May 12, the New York Times published an article about Goodling repeatedly engaging in "prohibited personnel practices" while at the Justice Department. "You have a Monica problem" several Justice Department officials told Robin C. Ashton, a criminal prosecutor at the Department of Justice. "She believes you're a Democrat and doesn't feel you can be trusted."[25] Ashton was denied a promotion during Goodling's tenure, but in the Obama administration, Attorney General Eric Holder determined that she was qualified and appointed her as Counsel for Professional Responsibility, the head of the Justice Department's internal ethics unit.[26]

One week after Goodling's testimony before the House, the Department's Office of the Inspector General and Counsel for the Office of Professional Responsibility confirmed in a letter[27] to the Senate Judiciary Committee, that they were expanding their investigation beyond "the removals of United States Attorneys" to also include "DOJ hiring and personnel decisions" by Goodling and other Justice Department employees.[28]

On July 28, 2008, a Justice Department report concluded that Goodling had violated federal law and Justice Department policy by discriminating against job applicants who weren't Republican or conservative loyalists. "Goodling improperly subjected candidates for certain career positions to the same politically based evaluation she used on candidates for political positions," the report concluded. In one instance, Justice investigators found, Goodling initially objected to hiring an assistant prosecutor in Washington because "judging from his resume, he appeared to be a liberal Democrat type." In another, she rejected an experienced terrorism prosecutor to work on counterterrorism issues at a Justice Department headquarters office "because of his wife's political affiliations."

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"Loyalty oaths" - have we forgotten Monica Goodling's DoJ whiteboard? (Original Post) underpants Jun 2017 OP
She also was a carrier of a Republican disease, memory loss in the face of investigation. L. Coyote Jun 2017 #1
I hear he roams the street if D.C. underpants Jun 2017 #2

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
1. She also was a carrier of a Republican disease, memory loss in the face of investigation.
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 09:58 AM
Jun 2017

She infected her boss.

underpants

(182,829 posts)
2. I hear he roams the street if D.C.
Sun Jun 18, 2017, 10:23 AM
Jun 2017

Endless clicking his car key remote. Poor guy can't remember where he parked his car either.

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