OT: [Stop the Poisons] WHERE SHRUB GETS HIS STAFF!

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At 07:50 AM 7/20/07, you wrote:

>Where Bush gets his staff? * Unbelievable *

>Posted by: " Fernwoods " Fernwoods fernwoods7

>Thu Jul 19, 2007 6:31 pm (PST)

>

>Bill Maher's statements about the large # of Bush staff from one of the

>worst law schools in the country was so hard to believe, I did a search to

>see if

>it was true, and although exaggerated a little to make a funny story, the

>main points do seem to be true.

>

>_http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/125.html_

>(http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/125.html) (Short video with amazing

>information)

>

>Monica Goodling, only 33 years old, was a top Justice Department official

>(3rd ranking official in Justice Department). She had never worked as a

>prosecutor, yet she was in charge of overseeing job performance of all 93 US

>attorneys.

>

>She was a graduate of an evangelical Christian school, Messiah College, then

>attended Pat Robertson's law school.

>US News & world Reports lists it as tier 4, the lowest rating of colleges.

>150 graduates of this school work in the Bush administration.

>

>_http://www.slate.com/id/2163601/_ (http://www.slate.com/id/2163601/)

>

>Goodling is only one of _150 graduates_

>(http://www.regent.edu/general/about_us/facts.cfm) of Regent University

>currently serving in this administration,

>as Regent's _Web site proclaims proudly_

>(http://www.regent.edu/general/about_us/facts.cfm) , a huge number for a

>29-year-old school. _Regent estimates_

>(http://www.regent.edu/acad/schlaw/careeralumni/pdfs/Spring%20REMARK%20-%20FINA\

L

>%20SPRING%202006.pdf) that " approximately one out of every six Regent

>alumni is employed in some form of government work. " And that's precisely

>what its

>founder desired.

>(This page from the Regent University web site has been removed.)

>

>_http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_

>spotlight_on_christian_law_school/?page=full_

>(http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2007/04/08/scandal_puts_s\

potlight_on_christian_law_schoo

>l/?page=full) (Go to link for entire article)

>

>But even in its darker days, Regent has had no better friend than the Bush

>administration. Graduates of the law school have been among the most

>influential of the more than 150 Regent University alumni hired to federal

>government

>positions since President Bush took office in 2001, according to a university

>website.

>

>One of those graduates is Monica Goodling , the former top aide to Attorney

>General Alberto Gonzales who is at the center of the storm over the firing of

>US attorneys. Goodling, who resigned on Friday, has become the face of Regent

>overnight -- and drawn a harsh spotlight to the administration's hiring of

>officials educated at smaller, conservative schools with sometimes marginal

>academic reputations.

>

>Documents show that Goodling, who has asserted her Fifth Amendment right

>against self-incrimination to avoid testifying before Congress, was one of a

>handful of officials overseeing the firings. She helped install Timothy

>Griffin

>, the Karl Rove aide and her former boss at the Republican National

>Committee,

>as a replacement US attorney in Arkansas.

>

>Because Goodling graduated from Regent in 1999 and has scant prosecutorial

>experience, her qualifications to evaluate the performance of US attorneys

>have

>come under fire. Senator Sheldon Whitehouse, Democrat of Rhode Island, asked

>at a hearing: " Should we be concerned with the experience level of the

>people who are making these highly significant decisions? "

>

>And across the political blogosphere, critics have held up Goodling, who

>declined to be interviewed, as a prime example of the Bush administration

>subordinating ability to politics in hiring decisions.

>

> " It used to be that high-level DOJ jobs were generally reserved for the best

>of the legal profession, " wrote a contributor to The New Republic website .

> " . . . That a recent graduate of one of the very worst (and sketchiest) law

>schools with virtually no relevant experience could ascend to this

>position is

>a sure sign that there is something seriously wrong at the DOJ. "

>

>The Regent law school was founded in 1986, when Oral Roberts University shut

>down its ailing law school and sent its library to Robertson's Bible-based

>college in Virginia. It was initially called " CBN University School of Law "

>after the televangelist's Christian Broadcasting Network, whose studios share

>the campus and which provided much of the funding for the law school. (The

>Coors Foundation is also a donor to the university.) The American Bar

>Association

>accredited Regent 's law school in 1996.

>

>Not long ago, it was rare for Regent graduates to join the federal

>government. But in 2001, the Bush administration picked the dean of Regent's

>government school, Kay Coles James , to be the director of the Office of

>Personnel

>Management -- essentially the head of human resources for the executive

>branch.

>The doors of opportunity for government jobs were thrown open to Regent

>alumni.

>

> " We've had great placement, " said Jay Sekulow , who heads a non profit law

>firm based at Regent that files lawsuits aimed at lowering barriers between

>church and state. " We've had a lot of people in key positions. "

>

>Many of those who have Regent law degrees, including Goodling, joined the

>Department of Justice. Their path to employment was further eased in late

>2002,

>when John Ashcroft , then attorney general, changed longstanding rules for

>hiring lawyers to fill vacancies in the career ranks.

>

>Previously, veteran civil servants screened applicants and recommended whom

>to hire, usually picking top students from elite schools.

 

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