Morale Low At The Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division

20 percent of the Division’s lawyers were forced out in 2005. Racial and gender discrimination prosecutions are down 40 percent since Bush II was elected in 2000. Veterans of the Division say that the political appointees have forced the career lawyers out of hiring and policy decisions. The veteran and career lawyers, who tend to [...]

Quote of the Day: Martin Niemoller

“First they came for the Communist, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist. Then they came for the Jews, and I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew. Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn’t speak up because I was a Protestant. Then they came for me, and by [...]

And Another One Bites the Dust: Bob Woodward Covered Up His Role In Plamegate

Oh no! Not another sneaky, conniving, embedded-in-the-Bush Administration reporter!
“Washington Post Assistant Managing Editor Bob Woodward testified under oath Monday in the CIA leak case that a senior administration official told him about CIA operative Valerie Plame and her position at the agency nearly a month before her identity was disclosed.
In a more than two-hour [...]