From the NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/25/washington/24cnd-justice.html?_r=2&hp&oref=slogin&oref=sloginWASHINGTON -- Justice Department officials over the last six years illegally used “political or ideological” factors to hire new lawyers into an elite recruitment program, tapping law school graduates with conservative credentials over those with liberal-sounding resumes, a new report found Tuesday. The blistering report, prepared by the Justice Department’s inspector general, is the first in what will be a series of investigations growing out of last year’s scandal over...
