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How Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson Worked the System

Posted Aug 5, 2008, 01:04 pm CDT
By Debra Cassens Weiss

Monica Goodling and Kyle Sampson were able to inject politics in Justice Department hiring decisions partly because they rewrote the rules governing the process, a recent report reveals.

In January 2006, Goodling had been a staff counsel for Attorney General Alberto Gonzales for only three months when she set out to change the rules. She suggested an internal order that would strip hiring authority from the deputy attorney general and move it to the attorney general’s White House liaison and chief of staff.

Goodling became that liaison only weeks later. Legal Times examines how she worked the system in a story based on a close reading of a report by the by the Office of Professional Responsibility… Continue reading...

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