Saturday, February 4, 2012

The Scale of Corruption in the U.S. Department of Justice is Mindboggling

J. Christian Adams at PJMedia (who used to work in the DOJ) has a very depressing article about corruption in DOJ and nothing is being done about it.  He links to recent news stories about DOJ prosecutors taking bribes from people they were investigating--and there has been no attempt to prosecute them.  The same source inside DOJ reports:

The sitting governor of the U.S. Virgin Islands, his attorney general and an unspecified number of Virgin Islands legislators also accepted bribes, the source said, adding that U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is aware prosecutors and elected officials were bribed and otherwise compromised, but has not held anyone accountable.

The bribed officials, an attorney with knowledge of the investigation told TheDC, remain on the taxpayers’ payroll at the Justice Department without any accountability. The DOJ source said Holder does not want to admit public officials accepted bribes while under his leadership.
The February 3, 2012 Virgin Islands Daily News reports that the officials in question flat-out deny the accuracy of the claim.

We know that there is a big problem with government employees surfing porn websites at work.  Almost all employers have this problem, unless they have some blockers in place, but in this case, the problem is a bit more serious.  Senator Grassley found out about this from an inspector-general's report:
The OIG conducted an investigation concerning allegations that an AUSA was using his government computer to view inappropriate material on his government computer. The investigation determined that the AUSA routinely viewed adult content during official duty hours, and that there was at least one image of child pornography recovered on the AUSA’s government computer. The AUSA acknowledged that he had spent a significant amount of time each day viewing pornography. The U.S. Attorney’s Office declined prosecution. Disciplinary action against the AUSA is pending.
 A frightening thought: perhaps Fast & Furious is the least of the problems inside DOJ?

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