The Department of Justice has the historic role of advocating for the people of America and is not just the legal arm of the administration.  This dual role has led to conflicts because of the inherent conflict.  However what has transpired during Mr. Bush's occupation of the White House has been the transformation of the Department of Justice into being only an advocate and justifier of the political and policy aims.  The other side has been willfully ignored.  This can be clearly seen in the politicization of the firings of nine U.S. Attorneys.

This has not been a major news story by the corporate media for many months.  But I caught this little item via Talkingpointsmemo.com's Kate Klonick writing:

Alberto Gonzales, the former attorney general who oversaw the Justice Department during the firings of nine U.S. attorneys, won't be presently referred to a grand jury for his role in the affair...

The only good is that the door won't be entirely closed.  She continues:

Attorney General Michael Mukasey is preparing to name a prosecutor from within the DOJ to continue the work of the Offices of Professional Responsibly and the Inspector General, the same sources told the Post.

The corruption within the Department of Justice continues to this day.  As far as I can see there has been no meaningful reform within the Voting Rights Division nor in the Civil Rights Division's of the Department of Justice under Mukasey's tenure but the exact opposite.  Mukasey has continued policies of empahasizing "voter fraud" and not has implemented policies to combat "voter disenfranchisement" in states that are aggressively using HAVA to "scrub" voters from registration rolls in the upcoming election.  

Mukasey is "slick justice" and had hoodwinked Senators Schumer and Feinstein during his confirmation hearings.  Unfortunately it is the people of America who must suffer from the infirm hand of Mukasey's continuing policies of injustice.