It keeps getting worse....

From today's Washington Post... this ugly story just speaks for itself,

"Karen Stevens, Tovah Calderon and Teresa Kwong had a lot in common. They had good performance ratings as career lawyers in the Justice Department's civil rights division. And they were minority women transferred out of their jobs two years ago -- over the objections of their immediate supervisors -- by Bradley Schlozman, then the acting assistant attorney general for civil rights.

Schlozman ordered supervisors to tell the women that they had performance problems or that the office was overstaffed. But one lawyer, Conor Dugan, told colleagues that the recent Bush appointee had confided that his real motive was to 'make room for some good Americans' in that high-impact office, according to four lawyers who said they heard the account from Dugan.

Bradley Schlozman is accused of favoring political conservatives in hiring decisions when he was acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division. He has since left the division.
Bradley Schlozman is accused of favoring political conservatives in hiring decisions when he was acting assistant attorney general for the Justice Department's civil rights division. He has since left the division.

In another politically tinged conversation recounted by former colleagues, Schlozman asked a supervisor if a career lawyer who had voted for Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a onetime political rival of President Bush, could still be trusted."

Can't they at least try to be subtle?