From the Washington Post:
Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division.
And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago -- over the objections of their immediate supervisors -- by Bradley Schlozman, then the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.
Schlozman ordered supervisors to tell the women that they had performance problems or that the office was overstaffed.
But one lawyer, Conor Dugan, told colleagues that the recent Bush appointee had confided that his real motive was to "make room for some good Americans" in that high-impact office, according to four lawyers who said they heard the account from Dugan.
In another politically tinged conversation recounted by former colleagues, Schlozman asked a supervisor if a career lawyer who had voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a onetime political rival of President Bush, could still be trusted.
Ooh. Worried that the McCain-voting right-wing conservative lawyer just might not be Bushist fascist enough, eh?
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3 comments:
I'm assuming by "good Americans", he really meant white ones....
I'm sure Clarence Thomas would do fine. They just want to fill the government with Bush-bots who will do their evil bidding.
I am following this like a hawk....I have run out of TUMS weekly watching the Cspan hearings...( The" I don't recall "- the IDR hearings I call them....maybe all of them need Aricept...esp Gonzo)....
Ms Lam and Mr McKay are some of the finest US Attorneys that this Country has ever had.Esp. MrMcKay....breaks my heart that the Justice System is so Broken....
thanks for blogging it .....
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