Marisa Taylor, a reporter with McClatchy Newspapers, reports on the government employees in the scandal going on in the oil and gas royalty program in the U.S. Department of the Interior. And she posits a pretty good question...
WASHINGTON — The Interior Department's watchdog criticized the Justice Department on Thursday for declining to prosecute the managers of an oil- and gas-royalty program that's been tainted by allegations of illicit sex, drug use and taking favors worth thousands of dollars.
The Justice Department prosecuted two employees from the Minerals Management Service, but Inspector General Earl Devaney said he didn't know why the department's lawyers didn't act on his recommendation to prosecute two high-ranking officials who've since retired.
But really - the answer is pretty simple. Since there are so many crooks in the Republican party, and within the Bush Administration in particular, the Justice Department is trying to protect as many of them as they can. It would be a shame if half of the Republican Party leadership was all in jail or under indictment.
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