For eight years, the leaders of the administration of George W. Bush used a clever and effective tactic to mold the mission of the U.S. government to match their version of conservative ideology. Instead of eliminating an agency they opposed, they continued funding the agency, but whenever possible, they inserted staff who opposed the agency’s traditional mission. In the Department of Justice, this tactic took the form of transferring and demoting lawyers who enforced civil rights violations. According to the Justice Department’s own report, job applicants for the civil rights division were automatically rejected if they had ever worked for a civil rights group.