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KOS Diary Crosspost: BREAKING: DOJ Director Says Critics "Biased Against the Wealthy"
This is a cross post of a diary at Daily Kos; please comment here or there:
Youth Today, the publication
that scooped ABC News and broke the story in December about sketchy
grant-making at the Department of Justice's Juvenile Justice office, reports on
an advanced copy of J. Robert Flores’ congressional testimony tomorrow
in which he attributes criticism to those "biased against the wealthy"
and against the Bush administration in general.Youth Today, a D.C.-based national trade publication for the youth
work field, received advanced copy of Flores’ testimony, to be
delivered June 19 at 9:30 a.m. before the U.S. House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, chaired by Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.).
In prepared remarks, Flores – a Bush administration appointee who’s
helmed the office since April 2002 – says, according to the paper, that
"he awarded grants according to standard practice, that his choices
were approved by his supervisors and that media reports about the
grants process are misleading." The office, known as OJJDP, awards
grants to states and in turn requires them to protect incarcerated
youth, among other responsibilities, including awarding youth crime
prevention grants according to "competitive" criteria.
Comments (2)
From Youth Today's article:
Maybe it's a good thing that the Best Friends Foundation and the World Golf Foundation got grants. If the Best Friends actually keep some of these future Repubs from reproducing while they're in high school, maybe they never will. And isn't it a good thing to try to deter as many golf foursomes as possible from falling into white-collar crime or lobbying? (Is that redundant?)
I've written it before, but I think it deserves one more reading: I don't think there's one department under the Bush executive umbrella that has remained free from political influence.
When it gets down as far as DoJ grants to combat juvenile delinquency, what's left?
June 18, 2008 9:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
Isn't everyone biased against the wealthy? except the wealthy.
June 19, 2008 7:53 PM | Reply | Permalink
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