WASHINGTON — Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey on Tuesday rejected the idea of bringing criminal charges against former Justice Department employees who improperly used political litmus tests in hiring decisions, saying he had already taken strong internal steps in response to a “painful” episode.

Attorney General Michael B. Mukasey, speaking at the American Bar Association in New York on Tuesday, said officials will not be prosecuted in the Justice Department's political hiring scandal.

Two recent reports from the Justice Department inspector general and its internal ethics office found that seven officials at the Justice Department — all but one now gone — systematically rejected candidates with perceived “liberal” backgrounds for what were supposed to be nonpolitical jobs and instead picked conservative lawyers.

In a speech Tuesday morning to the American Bar Association in Manhattan, Mr. Mukasey condemned the political abuses in his most forceful language to date, saying “the system failed.” He also acknowledged that some critics and commentators had called on the Justice Department to take what he called “more drastic steps,” including prosecuting those at fault and firing those hired through flawed procedures. But he rejected both those approaches.

“Where there is enough evidence to charge someone with a crime, we vigorously prosecute,” he said. “But not every wrong, or even every violation of the law, is a crime.”

Mukasey Won’t Pursue Charges in Hiring Inquiry - NYTimes.com

crime - Definition from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
1: an act or the commission of an act that is forbidden or the omission of a duty that is commanded by a public law and that makes the offender liable to punishment by that law

Is he trying to do an imitation of Bill Clinton?

I never thought anything would come of this. And in a way I think we are all tired of trials and scandal.

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Jaywalking is a crime in most places...Jaywalking has a 99.999999999999% arrest-free rate...

If everyone was SOOOOOOOOOOO righteous in their "It's a crime, therefore they MUST pay!" attitude, there'd be 3 people left in the public domain...

And that's all he was saying...

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Did you leave out the "... drunk, naked and singing at the top of my lungs." part???

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Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."

Oh, you were there? You must have been that guy who was taking all the pictures.

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How can we be tired of something that has never happened yet. Nobody ever gets prosecuted in this administration. They have all broken the law. But no prosecutions. You may be tired of scandal I am tired of them getting by with crimes. You and I would already be in jail.

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Our nation has not always lived up to its ideals, yet those ideals have never ceased to guide us. They expose our flaws, and lead us to mend them. We are the beneficiaries of the work of the generations before us and it is each generation's responsibility to continue that work. - Laura Bush

God is a conservative -

Ecclesiastes 10:2--"A wise man's heart inclines him to the right, but a fool's heart to the left."