Post by Deleted on Nov 6, 2014 11:48:53 GMT -6
What is worse than corruption within the very agency declared the last resort for the investigation of professional corruption? If you have a local Police Department run amok? It's the Department of Justice you'd want to call. Got a local Sheriff that has more in common with the criminals than his deputies? DOJ is the place to go.
Of course...just who DO you call when the stench of corruption fills the very halls of Justice itself? I'd say God...but he'd likely chuckle, mumble something about just rewards and hang up these days.
Here is what happened...and in the Immigration division, as if that should be shocking.
Now you may say to yourself.....'Self? What the hell? They are just intern positions right? No harm done...eh?'. Whatever Self's opinion on this, let me say it DOES matter. It matters for two reasons. The deepest and worst corruption RARELY gets caught outright and on it's on merits. It is often caught by way of first finding smaller violations or failings of character. When you've crossed the line and gone to the dark side? What are little things to worry about anymore....like hiring an intern against all ethics and professional codes of conduct for doing such a thing? The other reason? These are STUDENTS for goodness sake. What is the lesson they learned? It isn't what you know...but WHO you know....when it's Government work you seek. (BOOOOO!)
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If I had more time right now, I might go hunt down that report to at least pull an executive summary from the front and see what it was all about. The main story here is enough though.
It is my belief that complex systems rarely fail or collapse by singular MAJOR failures. Not when it is examined to any degree. A large system can be brought down by small things, adding to become a culture of disregard and overall disrespect for the rule of law or basic regulation. When this is on display from the TOP down? Nothing good can ever come from it.
I wish there were a way to get an audit of our Government, agency by agency, by outsiders with nothing to gain or lose in the outcome. In other words, a useful look and not a CYA exercise. Alas....it'll never happen and I'd not even be sure of where we COULD find such people, when everything is political anymore. We need them tho....Oh, do we ever need independent audit of this Government.
Of course...just who DO you call when the stench of corruption fills the very halls of Justice itself? I'd say God...but he'd likely chuckle, mumble something about just rewards and hang up these days.
Here is what happened...and in the Immigration division, as if that should be shocking.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The top three officials at the Justice Department agency that oversees the federal immigration court system used their positions to help relatives get paid internships, according to a report released Thursday by the Justice Department's inspector general.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found that Executive Office for Immigration Review Director Juan Osuna, Board of Immigration Appeals Chairman David Neal and Chief Immigration Judge Brian O'Leary each used their positions to help four relatives get hired in the agency's Student Temporary Employment Program between 2007 and 2010.
Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz found that Executive Office for Immigration Review Director Juan Osuna, Board of Immigration Appeals Chairman David Neal and Chief Immigration Judge Brian O'Leary each used their positions to help four relatives get hired in the agency's Student Temporary Employment Program between 2007 and 2010.
Now you may say to yourself.....'Self? What the hell? They are just intern positions right? No harm done...eh?'. Whatever Self's opinion on this, let me say it DOES matter. It matters for two reasons. The deepest and worst corruption RARELY gets caught outright and on it's on merits. It is often caught by way of first finding smaller violations or failings of character. When you've crossed the line and gone to the dark side? What are little things to worry about anymore....like hiring an intern against all ethics and professional codes of conduct for doing such a thing? The other reason? These are STUDENTS for goodness sake. What is the lesson they learned? It isn't what you know...but WHO you know....when it's Government work you seek. (BOOOOO!)
Horowitz started investigating in 2013 after EOIR officials disclosed concerns about past hires. The disclosure, Horowitz wrote, was prompted by a 2012 report on improper hiring practices in the Justice Management Division.
If I had more time right now, I might go hunt down that report to at least pull an executive summary from the front and see what it was all about. The main story here is enough though.
It is my belief that complex systems rarely fail or collapse by singular MAJOR failures. Not when it is examined to any degree. A large system can be brought down by small things, adding to become a culture of disregard and overall disrespect for the rule of law or basic regulation. When this is on display from the TOP down? Nothing good can ever come from it.
I wish there were a way to get an audit of our Government, agency by agency, by outsiders with nothing to gain or lose in the outcome. In other words, a useful look and not a CYA exercise. Alas....it'll never happen and I'd not even be sure of where we COULD find such people, when everything is political anymore. We need them tho....Oh, do we ever need independent audit of this Government.
