Real World

I knew this happened since we reported on it months ago. But last night I met someone who’d applied for a DOJ career position a couple years ago, didn’t get the job and then later got one of the official letters informing him that he’d been rejected because he didn’t meet the ideological criteria that was being applied during the Gonzales-Goodling era. He was offered the opportunity to apply again. On one level, that’s no surprise to me. We led some of the reporting on this very issue. But it’s something else to actually meet someone whose career got stymied because of these hacks.