October 30, 2003


The DoJ can't handle the Truth

Have to love it when the gubmint agency charged with enforcing such minor laws as those that pertain to civil rights and diversity is unable to perform such tasks internally. But then it is the justice department of John "Southern Partisan" Ashcroft.

Seems an internal report on diversity at the Justice Department was posted on their website after being released by that over-worked, underpaid 1600 Crew employee Mr. R.E. Dacted.

An internal report that harshly criticized the Justice Department's diversity efforts was edited so heavily when it was posted on the department's Web site two weeks ago that half of its 186 pages, including the summary, were blacked out.

The deleted passages, electronically recovered by a self-described "information archaeologist" in Tucson, portrayed the department's record on diversity as seriously flawed, specifically in the hiring, promotion and retention of minority lawyers.
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Another deleted part said efforts to promote diversity "will take extraordinarily strong leadership" from the attorney general's office and other Justice Department offices.

Even complimentary conclusions were deleted, like one that said "attorneys across demographic groups believe that the Department is a good place to work" and another that said "private industry cites DOJ as a trend-setter for diversity."
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By the time the department posted the theoretically more secure version of the report on its Web site, it was too late. Russ Kick, a writer and editor in Tucson, who operates a Web site named thememoryhole.org, had had already electronically stripped the edited version of the black lines that hid the full text. Mr. Kick then posted the unedited version of the report on his Web site, where it has been copied more than 32,000 times, a near record for site. Justice Department officials said it was unlikely that any action would be taken against Mr. Kick.

Well, what would you expect from a guy like Asscrack who was put in place by a miserable failure. After all, Haley Barbour's favorite Good Old Boys club, the CCC is from Ashcroft's home state and Ol' Johnny is just waiting for the south to rise again...he's done everything but put a rebel flag on the back window of the limo and one of those stickers with the little guy peeing on a car logo.

Give me a break here, this is a department led by a fascist, racist, religious zealot. The only thing that could be worse is if the miserable failure were to put the nutso AG in Rummy's job. Can you say "Movin' to New Zealand?"

posted by Jo Fish on 10.30.03 at 11:54 PM





Comments:

I just love this: "A Kick in the Ashcroft!" What a way to start my day.

posted by: Shag from Brookline on 10.31.03 at 06:58 AM [permalink]



You just had to ruin my whole day by reminding me that the slime from the CCC hail from my home state (indeed, from my very own home town). Now I'm going to need a bunch of stiff drinks to recover my good mood, and it isn't even lunchtime yet.

Well, it must be lunchtime somewhere in the world.

posted by: Len Cleavelin on 10.31.03 at 12:52 PM [permalink]



Mmmmmm....moving to New Zealand - or Canada - I wish I could.

posted by: Get HR2239 Passed Now on 10.31.03 at 08:15 PM [permalink]



I'm beginning to wonder if the "lower ranks" aren't in revolt. There have been too many foul ups coming to light given the almost total lack of effort on the part of the media and the general paranoia of these clowns.

posted by: Bryan on 11.01.03 at 12:51 AM [permalink]






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