I know, more Bush bashing fodder....but this comes as no surpirse:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080624/pl_nm/usa_justice_probe_dc

Just for completeness...:

It said the department has since dismantled the screening process established in 2002 and set new guidance on hiring criteria.

I'd like to know what the screening process was before.

And it's not just the DoJ. We've had almost eight years of this sort of thing in nearly every Federal program, and the results are just as horrible as you'd expected (from the absurdity of national parks removing scientific statements because they contradict the stupidity of creationism to administrators in public welfare programs actively trying to reduce their "load" for any reason possible, completley subverting the point of the programs, the FAA "airlines are our customers" horror-story, the FDA being cut down to 4 inspectors for the ENTIRE COUNTRY to monitor food and medical imports), or in some cases creating entirely new agencies that did the same thing as existing ones, only worse and at greater cost.

Fiscal conservatism at work. It's going to take decades to clean this up, and in the meantime we've got a largely non-functional Federal government.

Wasn't that the well documented mission statement of Karl Rove politics, to inject partisanship into every level of government for the benefit of the party?

Yep.

http://www.washtimes.com/news/2008/jun/19/cheney-linked-to-torture-tactics/

This article was on the side bar of the original DoJ article, and while we have all discussed it already, it furthers the idea of the administration's attempts to control all elements of activity under it's watch.

An interesting thought came to me while reading it tho', and it could be the warm weather and the wine, or it could be a valid point: If Dubya had to go to Congress to get authorization to wage war, than should it not be waged under the rules of war signed off on by our country? And if the Geneva Conventions do not apply, and the members of Al-Queda captured are not to be treated as prisoners of war, than why did Congress have to approve anything related to this "war"? Was Bush simply making sure he had plenty of accomplices in his illegal actions?

I am confoosed.

The interesting part of all this is that if Obama is elected, and he decides to "clean house" of the partisanship, the GOP will be jumping all over him for "injectig partisanship into all levels of government".

We all know it's coming.