A minor scandal, granted, but one that may tell us something about the quality of the people Attorney General Eric Holder has hired.
On Sunday, I picked up a copy of J. Christian Adams's Injustice, hoping that it would include descriptions of some of the scandals in our scandal-plagued Justice Department.
It does. (And the book doesn't even mention "Fast and Furious".)
Here's one scandal, of many:
The ascendancy of leftwing activists has resulted not only in political bias in the Civil Rights Division, but in startling unprofessionalism as well. For example, for several months beginning in January 2010, a rash of stolen wallets and pilfered cash was reported inside the secure offices of the Civil Rights Division's Housing and Voting Sections. Sending out notices after each crime, Voting Section chief Chris Herren essentially copied and pasted the same email, changing just a few words. "It appears that there was another theft of money from a wallet in the Voting Section today," read one notice, followed shortly thereafter by another proclaiming, "It appears that there was yet another theft of money from a wallet in the Voting Section today." The appearance of an outright criminal inside the Civil Rights Division surely fulfilled Tom Perez's vow to transform the agency, though not in the way he had implied. (p. 87)
I'm not familiar with law offices, but I believe that petty theft is uncommon inside most of them.
Cross posted at Jim Miller on Politics.
Posted by Jim Miller at September 13, 2012 12:59 PM | Email ThisJim Miller and J. Christian Adams just want to stir the pot and see if any shekels rise to the surface.
Posted by: headless lucy on September 13, 2012 01:24 PMIf he is making up stories and falsehoods, please provide evidence, links, etc. to support your position.
Missing support for your statements, I'll just have to assume you just want to "stir the pot and see if any shekels rise to the surface."
Posted by: SouthernRoots on September 13, 2012 03:16 PMWhat am I missing here?
(badly mangled metaphors, psychotic similes?)
Posted by: mark on September 13, 2012 04:01 PMLeftist despots like Eric Holder would to well to listen up to that warning. And that goes for you to, Headlice.
Posted by: Saltherring on September 13, 2012 04:07 PMDo conservatives even make sense any more? Are you really this absurd?
Posted by: demo kid on September 13, 2012 05:05 PMAre you following this so far?
If I then say that the author and Jim Miller are merely 'stirring the pot' in the hopes that (surprise surprise) some shekels will rise to the surface, the reader with a little on the ball realizes that I am impugning the motives of the writer of the book and the person who is promoting that writer's book.
I am not too subtly implying that the author is writing books to excite the paranoid phantasies rubes like you.
Posted by: headless lucy on September 13, 2012 05:53 PMWhat crime rises to to your level of outrage? Draw your line and show who you are.
A 5 yr old snitching gum?
A 12 yr old stealing condoms?
An 18 yr old stealing beer?
A 24 yr old stealing steak?
When does theft become theft in your eyes?
Oh wait. I bet I know.
When someone steals from YOU.
If false, do you have links to your sources refuting these claims?
If they are true, then as Ragnar asked, when does theft become theft?
I'll add - if they are true, then why do you belittle the exposure of the thefts?
Posted by: SouthernRoots on September 13, 2012 06:05 PMNow that we've gotten that out of the way, maybe one of you can explain how this is a Justice Dept scandal.
Will Jim's police blotter report be a regular feature? I prefer his running series of Stuff I Would Write About If I Were Seattle Times Editor -- but not by much.
Posted by: scottd on September 13, 2012 06:26 PMPlease tell me you are kidding.
Posted by: RadioMattM on September 13, 2012 07:05 PMPlease tell me you are kidding.
Posted by: RadioMattM on September 13, 2012 07:05 PMI know this is an aside, but there are plenty of criticisms besides the economy that are significant to talk about. If these items are not brought up in the effort to change - why would the average voter think they would change much in the Justice Dept.?
Therein lies the reason why this race is still a toss-up when Romney should be up by 7-10 points.
Posted by: KDS on September 13, 2012 07:12 PMHow do you know the thief was a DOJ employee? I am sure there are hundreds of people including contractors, vendors, and visitors roaming through those offices daily.
I love watching you guys get lathered up. Please, tell us what Eric Holder should do to make sure THIS NEVER HAPPENS AGAIN!!!!
Posted by: scottd on September 13, 2012 07:38 PMJim flat out stated this was minor. Others decided to "shoot the messenger" without providing facts that the message was false.
If this story is correct, what does it say that in our own Department of Justice we have employees that routinely rip off other employees?
If it is visitors ripping off DoJ employees, what does that say for security in one of our top government offices?
I agree that Holder should not spend time on this - he should be addressing Fast and Furious and other major scandals.
Posted by: SouthernRoots on September 13, 2012 08:10 PMWhat does it say about the DOJ that they can't guarantee that none of the hundreds of thousands of folks entering their offices ever commits minor pilfering?
I suggest daily polygraphs and strip searches for everyone entering or leaving the building. It may be a minor breach in your book, but Jim thought it was important enough to note. Are you suggesting the DOJ should just let it go?
Posted by: scottd on September 13, 2012 08:38 PMRight is wrong depending on the circumstance... or the political situation.
The question is which came first? Dismissive ethics or dismissive ethics because of a media that only wants to report violations of the people whose politics they don't like. Are the situational ethics the cause or the result?
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on September 13, 2012 08:46 PMAnd don't forget, Bush bailed the banks out, not Obama.
How about a million dead Iraqis because Bush started a war under false pretenses?
You people are childish.
Posted by: headless lucy on September 13, 2012 08:50 PMWhat proof do you have that these thefts are committed in places accessible to the public?
What knowledge do you have of how much free roaming the public may do in this building?
I suppose you are correct. Where there is a gathering of criminals, we should expect to see higher crime rates. Thus, with all the criminals freely roaming about DoJ, we shouldn't be surprised or shocked that the crimes are happening, petty as they may be.
Posted by: SouthernRoots on September 13, 2012 08:52 PMNewsflash lefty: "finders keeper' is still THEFT. A moral person, entity, administration would place a higher responsibility on protecting something of another more than their own. That you never learned that speaks volumes.
You have such an indulgence for minor theft - go ahead and post the of where you'll leave you car with the keys in it. It will only be a minor theft - maybe your garage door opener... or some mail you left lying under your dirty socks
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on September 13, 2012 08:56 PMOh wait. That's right. The Obama Department of INjustice refused to prosecute the premier Obama cash bundler.
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on September 13, 2012 08:59 PMBzzt. Wrong. As I pointed out before in a different thread, Bush went to Congress, unlike the current resident at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. Congress (including quite a few prominent Democrats) authorized the action on Iraq.
(A teaching moment for you here, mindless. See that highlighted "unlike" and "authorized"? Those are links to websites with information backing up each of my assertions. It's called citing a source. I know you know nothing about such things, but you might want to try it sometime.)
And maybe you should brush up on your constitution. Only Congress has the power to declare war.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 13, 2012 09:37 PMRags, for once you and I can agree on something. That was a goddamned disgrace.
Is Romney going to do something about that? If he was, I'd probably vote for him. Fat chance of that...
Posted by: scottd on September 13, 2012 09:39 PMSuppose Obama (Bush) knowingly lied to congress, the American people, and the world about Iraq obtaining yellowcake uranium, and, under the aegis of that lie obtained the OK to engage in hostilities; does that mean that the war wasn't started under false pretenses because he may have been proceeduraly correct.
You are a numbskull.
Posted by: headless lucy on September 13, 2012 11:18 PMBut b/c Sebelius is a democrat, it wasn't seen as necessary to fire her because illegal acts are okay to commit as long as you have a D after your name. And while ignorance of the law is no excuse for the rest of us, it is okay as long as you are a democrat.
Posted by: Monterey on September 14, 2012 12:30 AMAl Qaeda "Gave Up Osama Bin Laden" To Make "Obama Look Good"
WINGNUTS, forever living in an imaginary world.
And don't forget what imaginary Obama told Clint Eastwood!
Oh, and I notice how the claim keeps shifting about what exactly he "lied" about. Don't you all get the same memo? So how come you are all so inconsistent?
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 14, 2012 11:08 AMhttp://www.leadingtowar.com/claims_facts_yellowcake.php
.............
Now you can't claim you have not seen the evidence, you can only say you don't believe it.
Posted by: Harbinger of the Black Spring on September 14, 2012 12:18 PMI'm not impressed. Once again, we see that appeasement just doesn't work. And we now learn that Obama has blown off his daily intelligence briefings and Israel (again) so he can go hang with rich celebrities at fundraisers and go to interviews with magazines relatively few people read.
Vote Romney/Ryan and put the grown-ups back in charge again. We can't afford any less.
Where's Obama?
Can we please have a competent president in 2013? this one's not up to the job.
Posted by: Monterey on September 14, 2012 12:32 PMCognitive Dissonance and then some describes all Obama supporters who don't assimilate in their brains what is really going on.
They know they are hypocrites (progressives), yet they still persist in being pernicious toward Romney/Ryan - yet they cannot truthfully reconcile that they are not an improvement. They know the mideast is a powder keg thanks in large to Obama's policies. Economically, we are a basket case, thanks in large to Obama's polilcies. Even if Romney spent like Bush (which he doesn't - he does not spend nearly as much) he would be a marked improvement.
If Romney gets elected in 2012, he could easily campaign about Obama driving the car into the ditch and going back to the big government policies that got us in the ditch, when he campaigns in 2016. However, I am betting that won't have to resort to the fallback position, which is bogus that Obama has employed for 2012.
Posted by: KDS on September 14, 2012 01:55 PMAh.
I was only confused on the point of your adding Jim to the list of people you claim hope to profit from a sensationalist book.
I doubt Jim has any monetary interest in the enterprise.
As for paranoia, I doubt I've posted anything here from which one could draw such an inference -- or are you once again, lumping several people together into one slur? There's a term for that, isn't there?
Posted by: mark on September 14, 2012 02:55 PMLooks like the left doesn't even believe your movie's supposed "evidence". Since I found all these in less than a 15 mins of searching, makes me think you've got your head buried next to the mindless one's.
Got anything else?
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 14, 2012 04:27 PMIt's hilarious.
You are oblivious to the fact that you've been bested repeated times -- by me -- and I don't even have a head.
My wife just made me a martini, so I'm off. Toodle-ooo!!
Posted by: headless lucy on September 14, 2012 04:36 PMBut then we've see what tabloid junk you think is "evidence."
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 14, 2012 04:36 PMYou are a textbook case of cognitive dissonance.
Posted by: KDS on September 14, 2012 06:00 PMThanks for the laugh, mindless. You can't even argue (debate) your way out of a wet paper sack.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 14, 2012 06:21 PMNor does Warm Prune... juice even attempt to do so. He comes in, dumps his constipation from the body missing its head, then sits back and stokes his own ego telling himself how clever he is.
Most of us appreciate a good debate. Warm prune offers nothing but babble. You can't debate babble or mindless drivel. Ignore him.
Posted by: RagnarDanneskold on September 14, 2012 07:01 PMhttp://www.ijreview.com/2012/09/15104-idiots-lets-ban-profits/
Posted by: Politically Incorrect on September 14, 2012 09:54 PMhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Drak3NcRpJc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1TqdZGXZUk
http://artistdogboy.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-evidence-that-republicans-stole.html
Keep shopping!!!
Also noted that one of your sources there (artistdogboy) further contradicts your claims about 'trillions of dollars' for unbudgeted wars.
You really should stop opening your mouth and providing further proof of how really foolish you are.
Posted by: It Takes a Village to Convene a Grand Jury on September 16, 2012 10:00 AMIt doesn't mean Obama won't try it in 2012, with their baseless lies and distortions the aid of the DOJ - obviously they are out to win Oiho (lol) any way legal or illegal they can.
It is a sad commentary, but this country is teetering on the verge of becoming a banana republic. Nov. 6th will be telling - vigilance where there is evidence of fraud or cheating is important. Black pastors have started to discouraging people in their congregation from voting - they are opening their eyes to the truth. Kudos to them.
No Christian should vote for Obama in 2012 or they have shown themselves to be sellouts to Godless marxism. Sounds absolute, but it's the right thing to do !
Posted by: KDS on September 16, 2012 05:09 PM