From The Washington Post:
Top hiring officials at the U.S. Customs and Border Protection agency broke federal civil service laws when they tried to hire three politically connected but unqualified candidates who were favored by the agency’s then-commissioner, a government watchdog charged Tuesday. The human resources office was warned that choosing the candidates, political appointees who worked on President Obama’s 2008 campaign and were then hired at the Department of Homeland Security, CBP’s parent agency, would circumvent laws designed to create a fair competition for federal jobs.
