The End of Civil Rights

Another outcome of the Attorney General Gonzalez scandal is the uncovering of the slow dismantling of the Department Of Justice's (DOJ) civil rights division.  A Salon magazine article discusses the steady demise of the division as "the administration sought to recast the division in its own image, by minimizing outside input, getting rid of career people and hiring loyal Bushies."  After the passage of the so-called PATRIOT Act and the indefinite detention and sometimes torture of suspects in the War on Terror, it isn't too shocking to read of the Bush Adminsitration's deprioritization of civil rights as an important issue.  What is shocking, is that such a productive, influential, and worthwile division of the DOJ has slowly eroded into nothing but a series of buildings where Bush supporters can pull in a salary for their loyalty.