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Fallout
By April 2007, the apparent politicization of the Department of Justice, the influence of politics on the appointment of some of the U.S. Attorneys, and the alleged politically-motivated prosecutions by some of the U.S. Attorneys began to affect cases of public corruption and voter fraud nationwide. According to the National Law Journal, "Just the appearance of political influence in cases related to those firings, combined with the recent, unusual reversal of a federal public corruption conviction in Wisconsin [c.f., Georgia Thompson], some say, will spur aggressive defense lawyers to question the political motivation of prosecutors in certain cases; make magistrates and judges more skeptical of the evidence before them; and perhaps even chill line prosecutors in their pursuit of some indictments."[25]

By mid-September 2007, nine senior staff of the Department of Justice associated with the controversy had resigned.[16][17][18][19] The most prominent resignations include:


Alberto GonzalesAttorney General Alberto Gonzales[20][21][22][23]
Deputy Attorney General Paul McNulty;
Acting Associate Attorney General William W. Mercer resigned from the acting office prior to Senate confirmation hearings for the same position, and returned to his post as U.S. Attorney for Montana (he held dual positions);
Chief of Staff for the Attorney General Kyle Sampson
Chief of Staff for the Deputy Attorney General Michael Elston;
Director of the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys (EOUSA) Michael A. Battle;
the subsequently appointed Director to the EOUSA, Bradley Schlozman, also the former acting Assistant Attorney General for the Civil Rights Division;
the Department of Justice's White House Liaison Monica Goodling
In June 2008, a grand jury was empaneled to consider criminal indictments against officials involved in the firings. The grand jury was presented evidence from ongoing investigations at the Department of Justice Inspector General’s office and at the DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility.[56]
 
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regent_University#Bush_administration_hires


Bush administration hires
According to Regent University, more than 150 of its graduates had been hired by the federal government during the George W. Bush presidency[18] including dozens in Bush's administration.[57] As it was previously rare for alumni to go into government, Boston Globe journalist Charlie Savage suggested that the appointment of Office of Personnel Management director Kay Coles James, the former dean of Regent's government school, caused this sharp increase in Regent alumni employed in the government.[18] An article about a Regent graduate who interviewed for a government position and Regent's low school rankings were cited as an example of the Bush administration hiring applicants with strong conservative credentials but weaker academic qualifications and less civil rights law experience than past candidates in the Civil Rights Division.[18] In addition to Savage, several other commentators made similar assertions.[37][58][59][60] The Washington Post contrasted the employment of Regent employees by Bush to the hiring practices of his successor Barack Obama who tended to select from higher tiered colleges.[57]




Rankings
U.S. News & World Report ranks Regent University School of Law as a Tier 4 school, [30] the lowest ranking within the law school category.[31] The Princeton Review ranked Regent University seventh in the country for quality of life[32] and the most conservative school.[33] The Sustainable Endowments Institute in Cambridge, Mass., gave Regent a grade of D in its 2009 College Sustainability Report Card[34][35] an improvement from the previous year's F grade.[36]
 
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Hmm. I wonder what evinces links are about? I don't wonder enough to click them, but Im slightly interested. But not really.
 
lol, evince trying desperately to spin her claim that bush hired lawschool grads from the worst lawschools...when in reality bush hired gonzales who graduated from harvard, the same as obama....

i guess truth doesn't matter huh....
 
I just proved that Bush politicized the DOJ and they chose lawyers from one of the worst schools to fill its ranks.

Now this directly effected the cases the DOJ chose to prosicute.

They used the DOJ as a political arm of the republican party and you deffended it.
 
I just proved that Bush politicized the DOJ and they chose lawyers from one of the worst schools to fill its ranks.

Now this directly effected the cases the DOJ chose to prosicute.

They used the DOJ as a political arm of the republican party and you deffended it.

?

i didn't defend anything, good lord, you're such a liar....all i did was point out that you're wrong about the worst lawschool....you said:

hiring law school grads from the worst college in the country to head our justice system

that is simply not true, gonzales, who did in fact head the justice system, graduated from harvard, which ranks in the top 3 lawschools in the nation

instead of admitting you're wrong, you spread more meadowmuffins around the board
 
Grads you asshole.

Plural

They hired some of the most unqualified people in the nation to be our TOP lawyers.

They in turn prosicuted people for political reasons and stoppd investigations against people they liked.

They fired people who had behaved honorably anf refused to act in an illegal manner to prosicute for political reasons.

Cons defended this behavior .
 
Grads you asshole.

Plural

They hired some of the most unqualified people in the nation to be our TOP lawyers.

They in turn prosicuted people for political reasons and stoppd investigations against people they liked.

They fired people who had behaved honorably anf refused to act in an illegal manner to prosicute for political reasons.

Cons defended this behavior .

and you are defending this administration doing the SAME thing if NOT worse..so you can knock off the phony it's all the Republican, cons fault for EVERYTHING..
 
Grads you asshole.

Plural

They hired some of the most unqualified people in the nation to be our TOP lawyers.

They in turn prosicuted people for political reasons and stoppd investigations against people they liked.

They fired people who had behaved honorably anf refused to act in an illegal manner to prosicute for political reasons.

Cons defended this behavior .

bush hired more than one attorney to head the DOJ...ashcroft and gonzales

you bashed gonzales' education because he is hispanic, you're a racist
 
Funny how some people are only good at spewing hate.

This tainwallow fauned and preened over every step Bush took and now pretends the left sees Obama as some messiah.

We have not in any way followed Obama in locked step this year. He has been given shit by the left all the way along.

The right walked in locked step with Bush and Cheney while they allowed us to be attacked, Gave huge tax breaks to the wealthy who in turned burned the shit out of our economy for their own personal gain, shot people in the face, spied on Americans, attacked a country out of greed and lied to us, ignored the real war, divided the country, worked to distroy our DOJ, attempted to try people for political gain, Kept perfectly legal voters from voting and even stepped right into the middle of a familys personal tradgedy for political gain.

You defended torture,spreading white phospherous on babies, blowing up wedding parties, trying people on false charges, toe tapping, lieing to the American people, spying on the American people, spewing hate on dead people who were loved by the American people, Lying about war heros records, forcing people to stand in line for 11 hours to vote because they are of another party than you, Voting Machines that dissapear votes and so much more.

Why would we ever think the right would tell the truth ever.

here you go
 
You are fucking blind if you did not see the left giving Obama shit

Afganistan
Healthcare
Patriot act
his economic staff
His giving us up to achieve bipartisan vote (which your team prooved to be very foolish)

You on the other hand were reduced to defending outing CIA agents, spying on the American people, hiring law school grads from the worst college in the country to head our justice system, torturing (which the greatest generation had the sense to make laws against),Elections held on machines that had NO security, disenfranchising American voters and so much more.

Here you go
 
We were attacked on 911 and the Bush administration did NOT protect us even though they had all the information they needed to see an attack was coming.

yeah and? Clinton didn't save us from the first world trade center bombing, the Uss Cole, the Oklahoma city Muir building bombing and unleashed their jackboots on the citizens of this country with the Elan Gonzalez fiasco and the killing of 80 Americans in the David Koresh deal..

your Messiah and his clown leader in the Homeland Security Janet Neapolitan just let a known terrorist on the no fly list almost blow up a plane over Detroit..
 
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