Greetings, you're listening to podcast number 130 of Blast the Right.

I'm your host Jack Clark, great to have you on board.

You'll hear about rampant law breaking by Bush administration officials in the

Department of Justice. It's not a pretty picture. You'll be treated to listen

to emails about taxes in Sean Hannity. I'll play you a Hannity audio clip that may

well rye you up. And last but not least, you'll learn about a fellow progressive

who needs a bit of help. Let's get right into it. File this under unbelievable

script scenarios. You're in the White House and wander into a conference room.

No one notices you're in the back, so you decide to stick around and listen to what's

going on. You see a notation on the blackboard that this is a seminar called the thorough

process of investigation. Sounds reasonable, if you're going to investigate, might as well

be thorough about it. But then, your jaw drops. The instructor is explaining how you need

to search a job applicant's background for important terms like Florida recount, guns,

abortion, and homosexual. Huh? Maybe now you turn to Blast the Right to explain what's

going on. Here's the scoop for you. Sources you'll hear in this segment include The New York

Times, The Los Angeles Times, Media Matters.org, USA Today, and The Washington Post.

The Federal Department of Justice has an Inspector General, as well as an Office of Professional

Responsibility. They've undertaken a series of investigations examining how Bush, DOJ

political appointees handled hiring and enforcement. The investigations, in short, are asking

whether the Bushians have politicized the Justice Department in an illegal manner. Unless

you've been paying real close attention to the news, you wouldn't have seen that this

summer the first two of these reports came out. Both studies condemned the Bushians for

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