Yes I know this story is a bit dated, but I would like to add my two cents (especially considering how I dealt with the topic a few months back). According to a Justice Department investigation Monica Goodling, the DOJ’s former liaison to the White House, did everything she could to make sure the people with the right politics (translation: Republicans) got hired. Those resumes minus Goodling approved ideology were tossed.

Now it would be easy to get all hyperbolic, call this the worst scandal evah, but some perspective is in order. First this is Washington D.C.,  where asking about someone’s politics is as common as dirt; however, Goodling treated the Justice Department like it was a college sorority where the only thing that mattered was fealty to Papa George Bush. Here is a question Goodling asked an  interviewee:

“What is it about George W. Bush that makes you want to serve him?”

Mmmmm. Isn’t Bush married and why was Goodling trying to hook him up with dates? The fact Goodling made it all about Bush and not about those complicated things like law and justice, says everything we need to know. Like a dull college senior, Goodling could not deal with anyone, or anything, that might question her vision of the world. A rather anti-intellectual stance that should not be near a place where justice is supposed to be  the goal.