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Former Justice Department attorney Monica Goodling violated federal non-discrimination laws by denying a job extension for a department attorney she perceived to be a lesbian. (Photo by Susan Walsh/AP)
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By: LOU CHIBBARO JR COMMENTS
 
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Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, told investigators he met with Goodling about Hagen’s employment at the DOJ and left the meeting “with the sense that her personal views on homosexuality probably played a role in Goodling’s decision not to extend [Hagen’s] detail.”
The report says Goodling later attempted to block Hagen from consideration for at least two other DOJ positions. But at least one other DOJ official — Assistant Attorney General Regina Schofield — rejected Goodling’s overtures and decided to hire Hagen to a detailed position with the department’s Office of Sex Offender Sentencing, Monitoring, Apprehending, Registering and Tracking (SMART).
“On February 1, 2007, [Hagen] was detailed to the SMART Office, despite Goodling’s request that the AUSA not be given the detail,” the report says. “Schofield said [Hagen] was doing a good job at the SMART Office, and would renew her SMART detail.”
Hagen, who still works at the Justice Department, has declined to respond to press inquires, saying she “just wants to focus on her work,” according to the April report by National Public Radio.
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