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“I had to get talked into doing it,” said Iglesias, who published a book on the firings, In-Justice: Inside the Scandal That Rocked The Bush Administration. “I felt nothing was going to happen. But I was told that the people who work in those offices are professional career people. They are not politicos.”

Iglesias said the next administration should form an internal Justice Department task force to make sure that the recommendations in Fine’s reports – rejecting politicization in hiring practices and legal decisions – are acted upon.

“They can’t ignore this,” Iglesias said. “This is not going away with a new president. The fact that the Justice Department is the agency that enforces individual rights and they were violating those rights is just a really awful situation. What do you do when the watchdog isn’t watching but is in fact violating the rights?”

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Jason Leopold is editor of the online investigative news magazine The Public Record, http://www.pubrecord.org, and the author of the National Bestseller, "News Junkie," a memoir. Visit www.newsjunkiebook.com for a preview. He is also a two-time (more...)

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