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BUSH JUSTICE DEPARTMENT BLACKLISTED SAME-SEX IMMIGRATION RIGHTS GROUPS

By Greg Siskind

Wow. From The Washington Blade: Applicants for Justice Department internships and honors programs may have been rejected based on their membership in LGBT groups during the Bush administration, the Blade has learned. Numerous applicants were denied entry to the department?s Honors Program and the summer intern program starting in 2006 because of their previous work in what were deemed to be liberal organizations, according to an internal Justice Department report issued last year. The practice occurred while Attorney General Alberto Gonzales led the department. The Blade recently learned that among the blacklisted groups was Immigration Equality, which focuses on LGBT-related...

Full post as published by Greg Siskind's Blog on July 21, 2009 (boomark / email).