From The New York Times, 8/24/07:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/washington/24resign.html?ref=us
Civil Rights Division Head Resigning at Justice Dept.
By PHILIP SHENON
WASHINGTON —
The head of the Justice Department’s civil rights division announced
Thursday that he was resigning, the latest in a long string of
departures from the department in the midst of a furor over the
leadership of Attorney General Alberto R. Gonzales.
The department said that the resignation of the official, Assistant
Attorney General Wan J. Kim, had nothing to do with the recent
controversies over Mr. Gonzales’s performance, and that Mr. Kim had
been planning his departure for months.
His departure was announced on the same day that department officials
confirmed that a senior official who preceded Mr. Kim in running the
civil rights division, Bradley J. Schlozman, had also resigned.
In Senate testimony two months ago, Mr. Schlozman, who was interim
director of the division in 1993, acknowledged that he had actively
recruited conservative Republican applicants to work in the division
and that he had rewritten the performance evaluations of career
lawyers who were not considered loyal to the Bush administration.
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ABANDON SHIP!!!
Harry
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