WH press corp hasn't asked Perino a single question about the DOJ scandal

[ProSense]

White House press corps hasn’t asked Perino about DOJ politicization.

Desipite yesterday’s explosive report confirming that top Justice Department officials, including Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson, had violated federal law, the White House press corps has not asked White House press secretary Dana Perino a single question about it. Both yesterday’s and today’s press briefings included no discussion of the report, nor a question on whether Attorney General Mukasey would follow through on a criminal perjury refferal from Congress.

Maybe they're still writing the questions?

Late late update: Attorney General Michael Mukasey released a statement saying he is "of course disturbed" by the findings of the OIG report:

I have said many times, both to members of the public and to Department employees, it is neither permissible nor acceptable to consider political affiliations in the hiring of career Department employees. And I have acted, and will continue to act, to ensure that my words are translated into reality so that the conduct described in this report does not occur again at the Department.

Over the course of the last year and a half, the Justice Department has made many institutional changes to remedy the problems discussed in today's report, and the report itself commends these changes. The report includes one new recommendation for institutional change, and I have directed the prompt implementation of that recommendation. It is crucial that the American people have confidence in the propriety of what we do and how we do it, and I will continue my efforts to make certain they can have such confidence.

Late late late update: The report also investigates whether officials (namely Williams, Goodling and Nowacki) gave "inaccurate or misleading" information to investigators, attorneys in civil-suits, and higher-ups at the DOJ.

Late late late late update: We think it's important to note that the former Attorney Generals Alberto Gonzales and John Ashcroft, who presided over the DOJ through all of this, were not implicated in the report.

The report also details some of the questions Goodling used for her interviews, here's a pithy little excerpt:

Tell us about your political philosophy. There are different groups of conservatives, by way of example: Social Conservative, Fiscal Conservative, Law & Order Republican.

(W)hat is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?

Aside from the President, give us an example of someone currently or recently in public service who you admire.

And our personal favorite:

Why are you a Republican?

Of the Goodling and Angela Williamson (the Deputy White House Liason) interviewees, 34 persons said they discussed abortion, and 21 said they discussed gay marriage.
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edited for clarity.

[EFerrari]

1. This morning, DemocracyNow! did a long segment on the meltdown

of the newspaper business. You might enjoy watching that, Prosense. It can be streamed at their site.

[ProSense]

3. Thanks for the tip. n/t

[Skidmore]

2. Anyone still have that cartoon a talented DUer developed some years back

in which the media is represented as lap dogs to *? They will rollover for snacks.

[Cha]

4. And their knees got dirty from scraping

the ground. What a perverted pack of jackals.

[Gabi Hayes]

5. they're as likely to ask about this as the campaign cool kids are to ask McCain

what he plans to do about this, and/or if he's going to return his prospective Justice Department to the non-partisanship under which it's been run for the previous 200 years

don't hold breath

[Blue_Tires]

6. not like she'd answer it, anyways