Justice Dept.’s hiring bias

Re “Tainted justice,” Opinion, June 28

Bruce J. Einhorn is incorrect in one respect. It was not John Ashcroft and Alberto R. Gonzales alone, as attorneys general, who established the hiring policy at the Department of Justice, but rather it was under the direction of their boss.

Clearly, President Bush himself has tainted the department by requiring politically-based hirings in areas that have been historically apolitical.

To write an opinion article that doesn’t mention our president in this matter is not fully accurate or reasonable, despite such an article being otherwise correct in its condemnation.

Gary Drucker

Los Angeles

Liberals have routinely used political litmus tests to allow only like-minded people into their environs, whether it’s government or private industry.

Einhorn states that though he was a liberal Democrat, his politics were never discussed on the job and were never a consideration by himself or his bosses. Why should they be when the job is dominated by people with an identical mind-set?

The fact that he served under the Reagan administration shows that conservatives are far more tolerant of opposing views than liberals will ever be. Their fanatical and emotional outbursts over Republican nominees have been tantamount to the Spanish Inquisition.

To hypocritical liberals like Einhorn, justice really means “just us.”

Pat Murphy

Pacific Palisades