i wondered if something like this was going on

the washington post currently features an article about the DoJ Honors Program, noting that the control of hiring decisions has just been passed back to the career lawyers and away from the political appointees. now, i recently applied for the DoJ Honors Program - and received a lightning quick rejection. sure, i'm not the perfect candidate, but i'm not that bad. i wondered at the time if they could tell from some of the things on my resume that i was a democrat. it seems that that is the least of what they probably considered. they may even have been looking at things like my facebook profile, if the article is to be believed.

some notable quotes from the article: "[P]olitical appointees... had rejected an unusually large number of applicants during the most recent hiring period."; "The House and Senate Judiciary committees also are investigating allegations from an anonymous group of Justice employees that most of those cut from the application lists had worked for Democrats or liberal causes and that Elston removed people for spurious reasons that included 'inappropriate information about them on the Internet.'"

there's more stuff like that in there. it's an embarrassment to the department, and i hope people don't forget it soon.